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Ajit Pai Cancels Trip To CES Amid Government Shutdown (theverge.com)
For the second year in a row, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will not be attending the annual Consumer Electronics Show. According to Politico Pro, Pai and Commissioner Brendan Carr are canceling their appearances at CES as a consequence of the ongoing partial government shutdown. Last year, Pai canceled due to death threats he received in the aftermath of the net neutrality rollback, which occurred just weeks prior to the conference. The Verge reports: Carr was expected to attend a roundtable session with Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter to discuss regulatory and policy issues involving 5G, privacy and accessibly, along with other topics. Both events have been removed from the CES schedule, but organizers have yet to respond to requests for comment.
As of Thursday afternoon, non-essential FCC employees were furloughed and âoemostâ operations were suspended as Congress battles it out over a funding package for the upcoming fiscal year. While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved. CES 2018 begins on January 8th and runs through the 11th. Pai was scheduled to speak on opening day at 1:30PM PST.
As of Thursday afternoon, non-essential FCC employees were furloughed and âoemostâ operations were suspended as Congress battles it out over a funding package for the upcoming fiscal year. While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved. CES 2018 begins on January 8th and runs through the 11th. Pai was scheduled to speak on opening day at 1:30PM PST.
I'm sure your commie buddies in the new congress will straighten it right out! They have everyone's best interests at heart.
I realize most are a joke like the ima gonna riot variety on twitter but still. I guess the brown shirts on the left exist but they seem sad and pathetic with shrunken balls and wispy beards.
The "shutdown" shows what we knew all along - that most of the government is graft and waste.
#TheREALDonaldJTraitor
lucky for him, his orange butt-buddy shut down the government, giving him a convenient and timely excuse to stay home and count the bribe money he's collected instead
Putting aside the issue of Trump famously not paying his suppliers, the idea that public service workers should go unpaid just because the President is having a hissy fit is frankly laughable to us outside the USA.
Seriously, grow the fuck up.
Can we _please_ remove the political slant from this site?
"ÃoemostÃ"
Editor fail.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
he just did not want to get booed off stage.
Who gives a flying fsck?
Pai canceled due to death threats
Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter
The fucking coward is simply to scared to show up there because he knows that just about every American, and likely a large segment of the rest of the developed world, hate his fucking guts! The little shit is a shill for the Cellular and cable providers here in the states. Hope his plane crashes next time though!
He probably found out, the C is for Consumer and not Corporate... brib^H^H^H^Hlobbying to be expected
They started with Pai, didn't they? Few people could be less essential right now.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
You found the one example regarding the baseball game, but please tell us which liberals have been murdering people in the streets? Oh, you mean the nazi at Charlottesville? No, wait, that was a conservatard. Do you mean those 3 or 4 church shootings we had? Oh wait, again, conservatives. The concert dude in vegas? Ah damn, another republitard. ANY OF THE MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE PAST 5 YEARS? Not one Liberal.
FUCK
OFF
Don't blow the plane up, the package ain't on board!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If a trade show like CES was having him as a speaker wouldn't the show itself pay for his travel, and accommodation? If it isn't why are the tax payers footing the bill for him to show up as a speaker at a private corporation's trade show? What does the govt shutdown have to do with him not being able to show? The guy just doesn't want to get booed and heckled off the stage.
As an Australian, I still can't believe the US managed to shut down the Mexican government for not paying for the wall.
That's next level Trump stuff right there!
I'm still not sure exactly what the Mexican shutdown has to do with the FCC though.
Even in Orwellian dystopia the hate was only two minutes ...
While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved.
So, now that enforcement, licensing, and spectrum management are shutdown.. until the FCC resumes operation... You or I could just start taking over some local cellular and FM radio broadcast frequencies that traditionally require licensing to use to transmit whatever I want, setup a 100-Watt wideband signal on the VHF broadcast range for personal high-speed internet, etc?
Maybe play with some jamming devices in a public place to see how people glued to their cell phones react.
How spectacular.
Management of radio spectrum and the creation of new opportunities for competitive technologies and services for the American public must be suspended
Both Hulu and Netflix started having connection issues on my Verizon Fiber. Does anyone else have similar problems? Will switching to Comcast help or make it worse?
While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard,
So, business as usual?
This is one of my all time favorite pieces of media in all it's formats
But it was a work of fiction and the 2 minutes of hate amounted to a paid break by the workers. A place with a full hour of paid hate is better than what a lot of workers in the free world were getting in 1949, 1984, or today.
It's meant to convey a moral and I like it but obsessing over the tiny details is just going to have you screaming at your mechanic that his coveralls represent the destruction of the individual before they're digested and assimilated into the system.