Social Media Banned from College Stadiums

August 17th, 2009 admin

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.


Originally posted on Mashable

 
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