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Why is MSG tracking people to begin with? It’s gross.
Because James Dolan is a paranoid power tripping dickhead. He had a parent who had taken their children to see the Rockettes thrown out because she worked for a law firm that was in litigation with MSG. She wasn’t even on the case but she got booted from the show regardless. The guy is a total chode, he makes some terrible music, if you want to laugh at him some of his stuff is on YouTube. He has a butt rock song about being friends with Harvey Weinstein and not knowing he was a monster.
He had a parent who had taken their children to see the Rockettes thrown out because she worked for a law firm that was in litigation with MSG. She wasn’t even on the case but she got booted from the show regardless.
I remember that case. She was identified via facial recognition too, from what I recall.
That’s right, she was. He has a knack of using that face recognition to ban people who criticize him too
Power-tripping insane billionaire. Aren't they all?
Yeah pretty much
The same MSG that hosted a Nazi rally in the 30's? Hmm.
Hosted another one recently
Taylor Swift wedding?
"While the arena acknowledged keeping information on celebrities’ sexual orientations..." James Dolan, you do realize that this is still quite bad, right ?
AND this is a factual admission which protects Wired against defamation.
Relevant:
https://www.theverge.com/news/637228/madison-square-garden-james-dolan-facial-recognition-fan-ban
The owner James Dolan is an asshole with tons of money and nothing better to do.
Without knowing anything else about it, I suspected that something of this sort happened. People don't jump on defamation lawsuits over published journalism without their egos being hurt in the process.
Streisand effect?
This lawsuit definitely took this story from "huh, that's kind of weird" to "oh what msg did is totally fucked" for me
Ooh, naming names.
Sounds like it’s time for people to boycott anything and everything happening at MSG.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2026
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