Pablo Torre

What's so illuminating about this group chat is what

really gets these guys sent into what feels like red alert status.

Yeah.

I mean, they have something like a protocol for when they hear, sell the team or Dolan sucks.

So we should say the group chat continues.

We're now 11 minutes later.

Yeah.

And a member of top flight security writes, forwarded the IDs to the intel team for workups.

That is seemingly a typo or, again, a sophisticated code name.

Yeah, loaded and facial in this particular context presumably refers to the security team now using the facial recognition technology to flag the fans in question.

But the threshold for who gets a workup, okay, we got the chanters.

What else rises to that level of concern?

And so, Top Flight Security, this team of people, they're trying to hunt down critics of James Dolan all across America.

From the same group chat.

Yeah, and look, I think that everyone on the NBA internet, on NBA Twitter, has joked about that.

But what you're saying is that James Dolan and his security guys, John C. Eversol, what they were doing was actually watching and reading and maybe constructing a dossier with your tweets in it to then make sure that you got put on a list.

Yep.

And this is where I feel obliged to point out that you've been reporting this story for Wired Magazine, which chronicles...

the cutting edge of technology, and this seems not very sophisticated.

Yes, please introduce formally the character of Henry Valentino.