<p>The Billionaire Who Built a Private Surveillance State</p><p><strong>Support my independent journalism:</strong> </p><p>🙏 Patreon: ⁠<a href="https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz"><u>https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz</u></a>       ⁠ </p><p><strong>🗞️ Buy a paid subscription to my Substack: </strong>⁠<a href="https://www.usermag.co"><u>https://www.usermag.co</u></a> </p><p>Sports arenas and concert venues are becoming high-tech surveillance &quot;deep states.&quot; In this video, I dive into the explosive Wired report by Noah Shachtman and Robert Silverman that reveals how the owner of a ton of NYC concert venues and sports arenas uses facial recognition and private investigators to track, monitor, and ban anyone he deems an enemy.</p><p>From tracking trans women at Pride Night to banning lawyers and 14-year-old kids for social media posts, the level of surveillance at MSG, Radio City, and The Sphere is unprecedented. </p><p>Is this the future of privacy for sports fans and concert-goers? I sat down with Noah Shachtman to discuss the chilling secrets of the new billionaire surveillance machine.</p><p>Full WIRED story: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine</a> <br></p>