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The ban is not going to happen. It's an issue of public safety and venue liability. FR use at video game conferences is a must, because every one has a series o
by bsenftner 7y ago
The ban is not going to happen. It's an issue of public safety and venue liability. FR use at video game conferences is a must, because every one has a series of morons threatening the venue, the conference, and the host. It is very difficult today to host any type of public event without multiple individuals taking their displeasure to extreme levels and making threats they might carry out. For such reasons, FR is booming.
- michaelt 7y agoIt was my understanding that most people who threaten venues do so anonymously, making facial recognition useless - can you cite any sources saying this isn't the case?
- bsenftner 7y agoMost people that threaten venues do so via email, or make statements of intent in social media. Places where their identity is known or easily acquired. People who make these threats are emotional and non-rational. The threats are bogus, but must be followed up due to liabilities. I know, because I and one of the security guys that has to respond to them.
- Hnrobert42 7y agoSince you handle these threats professionally, can you help settle this discussion? How many threats do concerts receive on average? What percentage are made anonymously? What percentage via email? Over what date range are your data valid?
- greggman2 7y agowhat changed? FR didn't exist 10 years ago but the events did so why do the events need FR now?
- sumitviii 7y agodons tinfoil hat Maybe because the FR industry is the one that's delivering those death threats?
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- bsenftner 7y agoYeah, 10 years ago a venue receiving threats had to purchase additional insurance, hire additional security, and run a SWAT team like surveillance operation. After that became routine, every venue that can host any gathering of any size became a security sink that ate attention and distracted potential opportunities as public levels of casual violence simply skyrocketed to the levels we see today.
- pault 7y agoCan you point me towards any sources that show skyrocketing levels of casual violence?
- Hnrobert42 7y agoDoes the SWAT perform surveillance?
- matz1 7y agoI would guess because it was a lot more difficult and costly to handle those threat 10 years ago.
- pcdoodle 7y agoYes the ban will happen. You work for the damn FR industry, get out of here with your fear tactics.
- bsenftner 7y agoAnd working in the industry, one is given access to the threats and the level of concern the hosts have for their attendees. This article may as well as be a bunch of MAGA people, because you're all acting like an irrational mob. BTW, this web site is nothing but a fear farm. The defining image has text right at the top "Could lead to..." which is just fanning fear.
- Hnrobert42 7y agoI don’t read that post as using fear tactics nor for that matter do I even read it as supportive of FR. I read it it as simply an explanation for why venues will choose to use FR. One can both support the ban and doubt its success.
- acollins1331 7y agoOh great, another shill. We've been holding public events without FR for literally hundreds of thousands of years. Implying FR is needed in any way is not a position taken by an objective individual.