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Bulgaria Restricts Violence against Both Humans and Nonhumans on TV
Dec 10, 2005
Name: Bulgaria
Type: Tribute (for the living)
To Honor: Other
Location: , Bulgaria

Television channels must not show any psychological or physical violence against humans or nonhuman animals in Bulgaria.

Bulgarian Council for Electronic Media (CEM) (which is in charge of controlling the contents displayed in the media) has banned violence from television from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. CEM has commented that the rule is an attempt to stop the negative influence that television can have on children.

This will include giving information in detail regarding crimes, as well as broadcasting images that might promote the consumption of drugs, among other images.

Those channels that break this new rule would have to pay a fine which could be of up to 7 600 euros. The Association of Bulgarian Broadcasters (ABBRO) has accused this decision to be an interference of the CEM in their work which means actual censorship and goes against the right of the public to be informed and the media to do their job freely.

This measure does not forbid harming animals, but simply doing it in such a way that can be violent (at least for children). In any case, it is interesting to note the fact that the CEM has implicitly assumed that it is not only humans that can be the victims of violence, since other animals can be so as well, which implies that they are sentient beings as humans are.

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