SEC Ban on Social Media

Okay, so the SEC doesn’t get social media.  Actually I think it is one of those cases where CBS feels threatened by social media and the SEC feels threatened that CBS will want out of their $3 billion contract.  I only see this blowing up for them in the long run.

This morning Bryan Jones asked on Twitter how this was going to be enforced.  I honestly don’t see how they are going to be able to do this, unless of course they have a system of hall monitors or something that walks around handing out demerits at the ball games.  I know that this isn’t a big deal to a lot of people but once you think about it, if it wasn’t for social media, we never would have gotten this jewel of a photo from the Hog sidelines.

I will tell you this, I am going to Twitter and Facebook both this season at the games and I will report back to you on how they are enforcing this rule (probably from a holding cell).  If you are clueless as to what I am talking about, you can see this snippet from Mashable magazine:

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.”

Translated, that means no Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TwitPic, or any other service that could in any way compete with authorized media coverage of the event. In the case of the SEC, authorized media coverage rights belong to CBS, who has a $3 billion deal with the conference over the next 15 years according to The St Petersburg Times.

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