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Founded in 2003 by internet sensation David Portnoy, Barstool Sports began as a print publication and has since moved entirely online.
ANGELA DIAZ Lantern reporter diaz.464@osu.edu Bad news, Buckeyes. With popular Instagram accounts posting compromising videos of students recently, those nonconsensually posted have little recourse when it comes to getting them taken down, according to legal and communication experts. The Instagram pages @ohiostatechicks, @ohiostatebarstool and @infringedosu have posted videos of intoxicated students
engaging in public sexual acts and at campus-area bars and parties since August. The pages have around 195,000 followers combined. Chad Painter, chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Dayton, said the act of posting a video taken in a public space itself may be lawful, but many of the students in the videos are intoxicated, meaning they cannot consent to being filmed or posted, raising ethical concerns of privacy. “What is the public service aspect of this?” Painter said. “My guess is that
Barstool wouldn’t be able to answer that question, and if you can’t answer that question, you are at best on really shaky ethical grounds. Actually, you’re not on any ethical grounds, but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt.” Although Barstool’s Affiliate Program Agreement states it is the company’s goal to uphold the “highest possible ethical standards,” Amy Schmitz, a professor at Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law, said she doesn’t believe the account fulfills that obligation.
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