Comments on: SEC’s social media policy bad PR

By: FanSection Blog - Sports, Social Media, Analysis, Commentary

FanSection Blog - Sports, Social Media, Analysis, Commentary — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:55:58 +0000

[...] and now even includes members of the media attending the game. While not quite as absurd as SEC banning the use of social media by fans attending games, this policy is very [...]

By: Dan Wool

Dan Wool — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:36:58 +0000

Maybe if the SEC had ESPN or CBS co-branded pages online where fans could upload the content, they wouldn’t lose eyeballs. Like Charlotte said, what they don’t realize this that these days people watch, surf, text, tweet, chat, phone one another, etc. all while watching the game at the same time. Just a fundamental lack of understanding of the media — and not knowing your audience — who use this stuff the most! This is dumb. (And at my alma mater, thank god for @PeteCarroll.

By: Kathy Kerchner

Kathy Kerchner — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:34:30 +0000

What a ridiculous attempt at quashing free speech. What are they going to do—deploy the text/tweet/video/pic police throughout the stadium? What’s the consequence—getting arrested? Getting your fingers cut off? Stupid, stupid, stupid.