James Dolan is threatening to not serve fans alcohol at Madison Square Garden in response to a flap over facial recognition being used at his venues.
that it may be violating anti-bias laws with its practice of barring lawyers from its venues if they work for firms suing the company.
Dolan also threatened to pick a night at Madison Square Garden, possibly a Rangers game, to shut down alcohol sales in response to the New York State Liquor Authority allegedly coming after him about his facial recognition technology. "They're saying 'We're gonna take away your liquor license.' So I have a little surprise, right? Because they're basically doing this for publicity. So we're gonna give them some publicity. All right, what we're going to do, right is we're going to pick a night, right? Maybe a Rangers game, and we're going to shut down all liquor and alcohol in the building. Now, this isn't going to bother me, because I've been sober 29 years.
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