Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as a Critic of Its CEO

Madison Square Garden is home to the New York Knicks, one of the most storied performance venues in the country, and a surveillance state dystopia. Since 2018, the venue has been equipped with facial recognition tools used to identify people deemed to be potential security threats. But it also has seemingly become the go-to tool to keep anyone critical of MSG CEO James Dolan out of the space. The latest victim of MSG’s all-seeing eye is a person who made a t-shirt critical of Dolan years ago and never even wore it to the venue. According to The Verge, a Seattle resident named Frank Miller was in New York earlier this week for his parents’ wedding anniversary, and the family planned to attend a show at Radio City Music Hall, a venue owned by MSG. Miller was immediately pulled aside by security after scanning his ticket, handed a document informing him that he’s banned, and asked to leave. So, what did Miller do to get banned? According to the account that he was given by staff, as rep ... Read full article.