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Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as CEO Critic
- gnabgib 2y agoSource article (14 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506163
- super_trooper 2y agoNothing intellectual to say, but this is not the future most Americans want. Privatized social credit system incoming?
- hilbert42 2y agoThere's nothing intellectual about this, it just sucks.
- hallway_monitor 2y agoThis American is all for banning facial recognition, with stiff penalties for the person in charge of any company or agency who breaks this ban. The US is not China and the government exists to serve and protect its citizens. At least in theory.
- dokyun 2y agoIronic since the Chinese already banned facial recognition.
- yard2010 2y agoI believe he meant the US doesn't harvest its citizens' organs and sell them for cash
- pythonic_hell 2y agoLast time I checked the US still allows prison slave labour and medical experiments on its prison population.
- antifa 2y agoAlmost there tho https://theintercept.com/2023/02/19/organ-donor-ethics-prison-massachusetts/ https://theintercept.com/2023/02/19/organ-donor-ethics-priso... https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-deceased-alabama-inmates/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/us/organs-removed-deceased-al...
- peterlada 2y agoCompared to this, the governmental credit system of China seems to me a giant improvement, no?
- danielspace23 2y agoIt would be if it existed. > According to a February 2022 report by the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), a social credit "score" is a myth as there is "no score that dictates citizen's place in society" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
- mystified5016 2y agoThere's a pretty big split between what Americans want and what the US government wants. Same for EU and European citizens.
- kelseyfrog 2y agoWhen do we get to use this technology to ban CEOs?
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- ikeyrjwt 2y agowhen we catch up with the french
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoMore discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511340 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511340
- stuaxo 2y agoThe CEO sounds incredibly thin skinned.
- GoToRO 2y agoWith great power comes petty actions.