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Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design (www.theverge.com)

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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.28-144842/https://www.theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban

A concert on Monday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall was a special occasion for Frank Miller: his parents’ wedding anniversary. He didn’t end up seeing the show — and before he could even get past security, he was informed that he was in fact banned for life from the venue and all other properties owned by Madison Square Garden (MSG).

After scanning his ticket and promptly being pulled aside by security, Miller was told by staff that he was barred from the MSG properties for an incident at the Garden in 2021. But Miller says he hasn’t been to the venue in nearly a decade.

“They hand me a piece of paper letting me know that I’ve been added to a ban list,” Miller says. “There’s a trespass notice if I ever show up on any MSG property ever again,” which includes venues like Radio City, the Beacon Theatre, the Sphere, and the Chicago Theatre.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well that explains why it's not in the article: I use Ublock Orgin to block Meta shit (and going by my upvotes, most people in this comment section do as well).

Why the fuck would they embed an image instead of hosting it directly on the news site? What year is it? 1998? What if the original post goes down? Talk about shit journalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They addressed it in the comments on the article - basically they are worried about being sued by Meta if they make copies of the post. Walled gardens are like that so I can see why they are cautious - however I’d prefer they at least included a separate link so you could KNOW it was linking out to Instagram.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

LMAO the comments are getting adblocked as well for me. Probably cause they outsourced their comment section to some sketchy 3rd party too.