If true this is surely illegal as per the Sherman Antitrust act of 1890 which prevents attempts to prohibit competition and can be tried by the DOJ via the FTC.
I’m not seeing this as the NFL being a “big bad.” If teams are developing content, it’s not just reposting the same across X, Instagram. If the league, a year from now, is still dragging its feet, then it’s worth raising flags.
It will be interesting to see what organizations choose to participate in BlueSky and which ones don't. Then we'll all know which organizations to support and which ones to avoid!
Brand CEOs need to trust in their Social Media Marketers. They can see from miles away when a social media platform is dying. Move with the hordes=stabilize viewing #'s. Stay with the dead, lose numbers. It's all about analyzing patterns and acting on them, which those SM managers were hired to do.
As a media service, catering to only a certain segment of the population, never works. Just look at the msnbc ship as it sinks into the abyss. Sooner or later, but not too much later, Bluesky too will succumb to the advertising that most other platforms have. Bluesky is growing, CONSERVATIVE-ly.
Nah, man. The adults in the room are finally starting to put a stop to the bullshit. Football is a business. It needs customers. How many of these dorks on here are watching football? Not enough clearly lol
It’s not what you said. What you said is rational. This guy is saying liberals don’t watch football, and the Pats don’t even want our business, even if we did. Which is funny considering I’ve spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on Pats shit for my husband over the past 28 years.
You think people on here don't watch football? And you think that by limiting presence on a growing platform that that will grow the business? Something something adults in the room don't know a fucking thing about business.
I’m not condoning censorship in any way. I just don’t give two shakes that a football team would self censor (I’m not directly aware of and “advice” that might have been provided).
So it’s that the NFL won’t let them have a Bluesky account, as Bluesky is not an officially recognized social media partner of the nfl. The team already had an account here before the NFL told them to remove it, and they seem ready and willing to put it back up.
I hope this is the NFL being a bureaucracy, i.e. slow moving. I work in government and getting approval for new social media sites can take time. My fear is what everyone else is suggesting is true.
They are going to spin this as “sharing NFL media” copyright issue. But teams can post content without the media elements, just informational in nature. This is 100% a knee bend to the incoming oligarchy
Football is more of a nationalist American ritual than a sport.
It represents many American values such as, huge guys, huge corporate backers, huge lawns, and brain trauma as a point of pride.
Yet another reason to watch hockey to the exclusion of all other sports. That said, the only thing that matters to any professional sports league is money.
I am sO sHoCkEd that the fReE sPeEcH aBsOlUtIsTs are for shutting down competing voices 🙄 . They certainly won’t impinge on freedom as that would reveal their FreeDumb.
I hope NFL teams, especially the Patriots and Eagles, choose to launch Bluesky accounts just to combat the growing antisemitism on those sites, much less the opportunity to talk to fans who have left those platforms.
So, certain brands now have “deals” so that they only post content on specific social media forums?
This should make for a valid argument that certain social media sites are actually just “media sites” and therefore be subjected to the same govt laws as every other media site.
I mean, stop watching football. Just about every owner of every team donates to Trump anyways. But it's also so so SO boring. Just 4 hours of truck and beer commercials, with brief breaks for some sports, I assume.
I get that you may think they're trying to discredit blusesky or something to that extent that people should be able to put their teams on here. And maybe they will be able to. But couldn't care less about following a "sports team" on here. Which billionaire bought better players never hit to me.
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The owner of the Patriots is a friend of Trump but he could just keep the bksy account. Not sure what the NFL owners will do for "punishment" tho.
Trump leaned on his buddy Kraft because Elon whined to Trump about Bluesky numbers since the salute.
Now we have the NFL deciding what site is "approved."
Both these organizations are really eager to die a slow and painful decline.
The #Patriots suck anyway so who cares!
My @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social are still here
Go #Birds 🦅🏈🦅🏈
It's that they're choosing where to go based on the president's advice.
It's a censorship of media from the federal government.
As sports engagement & general users continue to grow I find it hard to imagine most teams not starting official accounts ☺️
And as the user base continues to grow, like it has, I would be surprised if we don't see that change 👍
Is that not what I said?
@bsky.app reach out to the nfl.
I have no interest in the sport.
https://bsky.app/profile/philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social
Houston Texans have a bluesky account.
It represents many American values such as, huge guys, huge corporate backers, huge lawns, and brain trauma as a point of pride.
This should make for a valid argument that certain social media sites are actually just “media sites” and therefore be subjected to the same govt laws as every other media site.
It's been a steady decline for years so this tracks.