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.
Bad headline. They saw he made a Tshirt they didn’t like, and banned him preemptively by finding him on social media
That was explained clearly by the title?
This is fucked up that they’re scanning everyone like so to apply their bullshit.
They imply the t shirt was the problem, and that it caused him to be flagged by the security system
I thought it was a t shirt with his face on it or something. But they went on social media, tracked him down, found a picture of his face, and banned him
The T-Shirt was the problem, but seeing as the title says he wasn’t wearing the t-shirt we can infer the t-shirt was not what was flagged at the stadium.
But the t-shirt wasn’t really the problem. Getting banned from the stadium wasn’t the problem - I don’t really care if one venue is banning people for whatever stupid and petty reason
They’re trawling through massive data sets they shouldn’t have and using facial recognition to pick people out through social media posts, job affiliation, and who knows what else.
They didn’t make the system, they’re clearly just users. That’s the problem here
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.
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?
