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from entering his buildings.

An actual Girl Scout.

Of course.

So the co-workers of that lawyer in litigation, they got, yeah, banned.

Right, although one of Dolan's attorneys estimated that the ban might affect something more like 900 lawyers who are living in and around the city here.

And on that note, James Dillon was not exactly shy in saying why he was using facial recognition technology.

He was saying, we are doing this to basically ban our enemies.

Some of the attorneys tried to sue to get back in.

A judge tossed that suit.

Some of the bans have been lifted.

But for the ongoing cases, his legal bans persist.

We should also point out that James Dolan and his security force had also blocked a graphic designer from seeing a concert because that graphic designer, Noah, had committed a heinous crime.

And so all of this speaks to, I think, not simply paranoia and not simply to sensitivity and not simply to vengeance.

These words we've all sort of been using to describe how James Dolan operates for years in this city.

It also speaks to how, quote unquote, self-defense works.

is something a billionaire would cite to create this private surveillance state while also receiving public money without, of course, the public fully appreciating what's happening behind the scenes.

Yes.

That clip that we just played happens.

And since then, the rise of this surveillance state kind of fades into something like normalcy.

And so a really crucial piece of documentation that I think is essential to understanding this story is a document that The Athletic originally reported on.