Members and affiliates of Browns Backers Worldwide, the official fan club organization sponsored by the Cleveland Browns, have been told to not criticize the football team on social media.
Per a report from Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan, official member platforms using any sort of designation of Browns Backers affiliation will lose their membership for posting negatively about the Browns players, coaches, team or ownership.
It’s an expansion of the goal of the organization, which is laid out in the very first paragraph of the Browns Backers official website, which is a subpage of the Browns’ own page:
The Browns Backers Worldwide is considered to be one of the largest organized fan clubs in all of professional sports with members and clubs established throughout the world. Browns Backers Worldwide exists as a non-profit organization to actively support and positively promote the Cleveland Browns.
The ban on negativity doesn’t apply to individual members or fans, as long as they do not publicly identify themselves as representing the Browns Backers.