A Monday night concert in the Radio City Hall in New York was a special occasion for Frank Miller: the anniversary of his parents’ marriage. It did not end up seeing the show – and before he was able to overcome security, it was reported that he was actually banned for life from the place and all other properties owned by Madison Square Garden (MSG).
After erasing his ticket immediately, it was immediately pulled by the security, Miller’s employees had been prevented from MSG’s property of a park accident in 2021. But Miller says he hadn’t been at the place for nearly a decade.
“They delivered a piece of paper to inform me that I was added to a ban list,” Miller says. “There is a notice of assault on food property if it ever appeared as before again,” which includes places like Radio City, Beacon Theater, The Sphere and Chicago Theater.
He was confusing at first. Then I got out: Maybe this was about T -shirt designed years ago. Msg Entertainment will not say what happened with Miller or how it was chosen from the crowd, but it is suspected that it was identified through the controversial face recognition systems that the company publishes in its place.
In 2017, the New York Nix Charles Okley star was removed from his seat near the owner of Nix and CEO of Madison Square Garden James Doulan. The prominent accident later started later An ongoing legal battle. For Miller, Okley was an “irreplaceable” part of the 1990s, he says. With his background in graphic design, making A shirt in the old team logo style That has read, “Doulan’s Ban” – a reference to the notorious quarrel.
A few years later, in 2021, Miller’s friend was wearing a shirt by Banlan to Nix and was expelled from future events. That accident was born Espn slices and News articles And verify the correctness of what many fans saw as a weight in the role of Dolan and MSG to drain the individual fans who criticized the team’s ownership.
But this week, Miller was not wearing a state shirt. It was not even in Nix. His friend who was expelled for the shirt was placed in social media publications as a designer when that happened, but Miller, who lives in Seattle, has not attended an event in New York years ago.
Miller says that after he wiped his digital ticket, but before he passed by security, he stopped a person working on Radio City, and pulled him aside, and he asked him to verify him. Then they went to another entrance to the building, where five or more employees stood with him because he was told that he was not allowed to return.
It is not sure how to tie MSG with a shirt or 2021 accident in an event that was not in it. Miller said freedom Even the concert, he never bought tickets for MSG events – was either gifts from other people, or got them through work.
“I have read articles on these things to recognize the face that Doulan [and] I use MSG properties, but I was not in the garden or around it outside the Penn station to take New Jersey Transit [to] Miller says his friend, who was present, made sure that his parents had enjoyed the exhibition while Miller was stopping in a nearby bar. He did not get a response to his ticket.
“I found it as a comic, until I was told that my mother was crying [in the lobby]Miller says about the experience. The memes are strong, as well as the state of monitoring. “Miller and his parents also had tickets to Knicks the next night;
Msg Entertainment refused to comment on the record of this story.
Keeping close monitoring on the beneficiaries is not the new MSG. In 2022, a lawyer in New Jersey was rejected to enter the Radio City Hall during the journey of scout girls. Violation He was running on a “lawyer exclusion list” Fill in people who work in companies that sue MSG. The lawyer is recognized using face recognition technology.
Miller says he was told on Radio City that he could resume the ban if he wanted it but he said it is not a priority for him. He hopes that his experience will help others who find themselves in a similar position, as they were unexpectedly rejected from entering an expensive event based on data about them collected by the company.
“It is something that we must be aware of – Panopticon,” says Miller. “He was [being] He was received at all times, and it is always framing as a safety, when that is rarely. It is more than a deterrent and tactics of fear to try to keep people in a queue. “