Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.

  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    According to capitalism, every usian is a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire. They’ll be able to buy their privacy as soon as they recover their billionaire status. It’s just a matter of time.

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    Don’t worry if anti mass surveillance becomes main stream among her fans she will put on a show about how antisurveillance she is. Go team swift I guess?

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      2 months ago

      There are no good billionaires. She charges kids $1500+ a ticket to watch her prance around in sparkles.

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    2 months ago

    i mean, if I’m renting out a venue and want something in the contract to disable surveillance both parties have the option to agree or not agree, and base it on a price. i understand billionaire hate but i don’t understand why people are getting upset about this particular contractual transaction. it’s not like this was the government or flock agreeing to make some exception.