Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design. And he didn’t even wear it to the venue.
Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
Bad headline. They saw he made a Tshirt they didn't like, and banned him preemptively by finding him on social media
That's still insane.
Oh no, I mean to say it's much worse than what the headline said
That was explained clearly by the title?
This is fucked up that they’re scanning everyone like so to apply their bullshit.
Stadiums are getting increasingly fascist. My response will be to stop going to events in them.
They always prefer cave to advertisers than listen to fans anyway so fuck them. Plus the overwhelming amount of gambling that’s just fine and dandy now makes me question the integrity of the game
During the last go around with that hideous pustule with the awful hair, major league soccer and it's fans got into a rather messy and protracted row over banning "antifa" iconography, signs, chants, etc. It seems to be back on the back burner now though because I'm seeing antifa flag again in the supporter sections.
He did not get a refund for his ticket, he says.
That's particularly fucked up. At least don't profit off of kicking someone out for your petty bullshit.
He should file a chargeback. What are they going to do, ban him for another lifetime?
These the same guy's that let the Nazis have a rally?
But a shirt that says "Ban Dolan" is "offensive in nature" and makes "threats against an MSG executive?"
The same stadium that hosted a Nazi rally in, what, the 1930's? And then again in 2024.
Twice.
Perfect example of how censorship is still dangerous even if it isn't the government doing it
I used to work for the company that creates the facial recognition system inside MSG. Three guesses why I don't work there anymore.
Thin scratchy toilet paper in the office bathrooms?
That was a big factor, sure. But no, it was the "deconfliction" queue they made for Texas DPS to track repeated facial recognition hits without any evidence tying the suspect to the crime scene - in theory identifying repeat offenders, but in practice, targeting black and brown people whose faces are likely to be harder for facial recognition to differentiate and therefore they may end up with random no-knock warrants on their names having never actually committed any crime. That toilet paper though... it's in the running.
You have a soul?
Land of the free, home of the brave, indeed. This attack on free speech will continue to get worse. The farther we let it go, the longer it will take to claw back any sort of legitimate freedom. Criticism should not be illegal, and designing and selling shirts like this is supposed to be an example of American freedom. We're about to have a new red scare (or are perhaps witnessing the first signs of the one we already have), this time with decades of social media content to scrape, facial recognition, and god knows what proprietary marketing "fingerprinting" data associated with our names/identity. The man who owns Tesla has made it clear he desires tyranny, and every one of those cars is festooned with cameras, roving, or sitting idle. Let alone operations like Waymo, driving around to wherever dispatched. Internet connected cameras on every street, our phones tracking our movements in real time, the internet of things, the privatization of legally protected security forces with no badging or oversight, arresting protestors, journalists, students, LEGAL CITIZENS. Make no mistake, they've raised the stakes already and this is not a game we can afford to lose.
MSG operating like r/worldnews
I haven't been to a stadium since 1994. Fuck sports.
