Social Media and College Stadiums

[Will E Worm]

Today, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is expected to release a final version of its new media policy. For the sake of sports fans everywhere, let’s hope it has some significant changes from the current version, because at the moment, it can best be described as a ban on all social media usage at SEC games.

Earlier this month, the conference informed its schools of the new policy, which reads: “Ticketed fans can’t “produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event.”

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Why should they care?

Protest and don't buy any tickets until all the bans are lifted. Hit them in their wallets.

 

[Ace Bandage]

Yeah, good luck with that. Can I be the guy that confiscates 100,011 cell phones at Neyland Stadium? That seems like a jolly good time!

 

[tiger1977]

This rule will be eliminated within the next few years. Like AR said, there's no way to truly enforce it on the fans.

 

[D-rock]

By the most strict literal way that is written it's technically not allowed to tell somebody the score from the game if there isn't some other public means of finding it out. (Even though all of that is supposed to be public information anyhow.)

Plus, who cares if a 10 second highlight gets put on a tube site with very low quality. Are they that greedy?

 

[ThatRedWing]

Plus, who cares if a 10 second highlight gets put on a tube site with very low quality. Are they that greedy?

Yes. Yes they are.