After the report about the Girl Scout mom getting booted from Radio City Music Hall, I spent the last two days reporting out the use of facial recognition technology by the Madison Square Garden empire to keep hundreds of lawyers that work for firms that have sued it from attending concerts, sporting events and shows. It is a radical use of the technology by a private company and I am truly shocked by how forthright MSG is about its real-world block list. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html
@kashhill
This seems quite similar to Musk banning journalists from Twitter. Using a corporate monopoly position to repress critics. I think that many of us, particularly in the US, see “business” as an activity that citizens engage in, and regulation of it as an infringement of their rights.
The reality is that business and trade were once controlled by monarchies. These have morphed into oligarchies, but retain their feudal roots. Big business should be treated as the anti-democratic (but probably necessary) evil that it is.
@willoremus
