Sejm considers bill limiting access to on-screen violence and obscenity

Sejm commissions have started work on the draft of a bill designed to limit the exposure of children to violence and obscenity on television, in videos and in computer games. The draft would ban the broadcast of programs with ob scene or violent dialogue, scenes or gestures before 10 pm. Restrictions wou ld also be imposed on the production and sale of computer games, videos and DVDs deemed inappropriate for the young. Industry insiders, however, are ske ptical, describing the bill as too general and unrealistic. "I can't imagine banning games in which death is a part of the story," said Tomasz Mazur, pre sident of computer software distributor IM Group. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A 5) M.K.