Weird how so many techbro ideas boil down to registering your identification with the tech oligarchs...
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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I can't think of anyone I would rather give unalterable biometric information to than a group of egomaniacal sadists who have shown utter disregard for the privacy of everyone as well as the legal code.
happening at the same time as age verification many tech, and websites.
Scalping Sam Altman would surely sell some tickets.
I don't trust a single thing that the world's most successful snake oil salesman of all time says.
I'm not sure I'd give him the #1 position. Definitely up there, but not quite at the top. Or maybe several megagrifters should share the throne.
Battle Royale of the megagrifters for the throne? Would surely sell some tickets, too. :3
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Trump? Musk? There's plenty of competition for #1. Atleast AI is actually a thing.
The day I have to give some billionaire creep my biometrics to go to a show is the same day I decide I’m never going to a show again
You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That's always been an option. Venues don't do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.
Just as long as I can get a full refund if I'm unable to attend anymore. Maybe up to an hour before or something.
Or control the prices so people don't overpay.
TicketSwap does this and works with the venues I think.
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How would you do this without verification? How do you still allow gift tickets or buying for a friend?
Tickets are issued to a name and are confirmed at entry with photo ID, just like with an airline ticket.
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Why shouldn't we use biometrics for security?
Because you can't change them once they are compromised. It breaks so many rules for security it isn't funny.
Why are companies/government pushing for this?
It is not about security, it is about tracking. This is the opposite of security and if we continue to allow it we will have severe consequences in our future.
Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.
I've got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off... There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.
They've only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn't work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that's true, never tried it, never will, but they didn't pursue it any further.
I always enjoy throwing out the "if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won't be able to login... That's up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware". Unfortunately they haven't forced it yet.
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(1) Offer a solution which exacerbates bot-traffic on the internet, (2) legitimize the need for verification of users as a result, (3) offer the most privacy-invasive "solution" to the "problem" imaginable: problem(1)-reaction(2)-solution(3)... every parasite's favorite paradigm :)
Fuck off Sam
You can't solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation's ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.
What a relief. As long as we are all tracked at all times by both government and corporations, we can finally be free of the burden of ticket scalping. It's a small price to pay for this great reward. I think we can turn our attention toward solving other oppressive plagues like Jay walking and double parking now.
Ahhh. Ticket scalping. The real issue of today's generation that no one is courageous enough to talk about.
I mean, it is AN issue. We can do more than one thing at a time
As far as I’m concerned, Tom Waits solved ticket scalping back in 1999. He did two shows in my area on the Mule Variations tour. When you bought tickets, you could only buy two, and you had to give a name. Not an id, just a name. And then at the door, you had to show ID. You would anyway because it was a 21-and-up show, but the name on the ID had to match the name on the ticket. They didn’t scan shit. Just the doorman glanced at the name, and compared it to what was printed on the ticket. You could buy as many pairs of tickets as you wanted under the same name, but you couldn’t then sell them to people because their ID wouldn’t match at the door.
Simple. Non invasive. It worked. The show was amazing.
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How does this achieve anything that requiring proof of purchase doesn't?
It achieves invading customer privacy.
Oh, and selling a lot of their scanner-ball hardware things. Because now anybody who ever buys tickets to any concert or any other live event will now also need to buy one of those little fuckers.
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I’m never going to a concert again
I'm going to support local anti-authoritarian punk and hip hop until they do away with this.
Support them after as well!
Welcome to Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, because this is an idea pulled straight from that game.
How about you just restrict ticket sales to 1-2 per person and require it to be tied to a name on sale which is verified on use and cannot be easily changed? That's all you need to do.
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Scam Altman: "Oh no - the bots are 2 good. Gaze into my black hole pls"
Scam Altman: Literally gave birth to the bot technology.
Sam Altman has so much shifty ideas
Sam's first business was an app tracking each other with you and your friends. It sounded useless at the time but it was probably a precursor idea to surveillance capitalism.
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None of them believe the 💩 they say to convince us to become even more surveilled, and we shouldn't, either. Point blank, these people are self-serving sociopaths, and they know the financial pain they've caused everyone has about got critical mass.
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The better to opress you with, my dear....biometric tracking everywhere for everything. We let them put microphones, cameras and location tracking, facial recognition in everything and everywhere, we might end up having to use LLMs as the interface to everything capturing voice, speech patterns, thought patterns....why the fuck not eyes, dna, fingerprints (wait, we already did that one)...
Just like Elon's tunnels could solve traffic.
More shit to do shit that can already be done with less shit if the people running the shit gave a shit.
Is there any evidence anal prints are also unique? I want to start an AI company but it stands for Anal Inspections.
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Are the orbs gonna shoot a laser beam that disintegrates the CEO of Ticketmaster?
They thought wrong.
This dumbass idea assumes a single person and NOT a group of people are responsible for scalping tickets, when in actuality this will just drive up scalping prices.
You fucking morons.
I try not to trust anything that has the name "Sam Altman" attached to it.
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