With this new policy, the protestors have been neutered.
Protests will now be confined to the locker room, where they will be out of sight - effectively, invisible to the public. Like when Facebook “mutes” conservatives.
And any player dumb enough to try to protest in public, will be fined, then eventually removed from the team after enough infractions.
This is a way to slowly weed out the protestors legally, or at least make them invisible. No wonder the race-baiters at ESPN are ticked off.