{"id":14496,"date":"2018-01-05T05:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/?p=14496"},"modified":"2018-01-05T05:49:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:49:38","slug":"ces-2018-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-cancels-his-appearance-exo-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/ces-2018-fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-cancels-his-appearance-exo-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon of the Week: Ajit Pai cancels his appearance at CES 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ajit Pai<\/strong>, chairman of the <strong>Federal Communications Commission<\/strong> (<strong>FCC<\/strong>) will not be attending the annual <strong>Consumer Electronics show<\/strong> (<strong>CES 2018<\/strong>) in Las Vegas next week, missing the show for the first time in five years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Known for being the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/cartoon-of-the-week-las-vegas-during-the-consumer-electronic-show\/\">biggest technology conference <\/a>of the year, <strong>CES<\/strong> allows companies to show off their new gadgets and brag about their innovative services.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Consumer Technology Association<\/strong> (<strong>CTA<\/strong>) has confirmed <strong>Pai<\/strong>\u2019s absence in a statement: \u2018Unfortunately, <strong>Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai<\/strong> is unable to attend <strong>CES 2018<\/strong>. We look forward to our next opportunity to host a technology policy discussion with him before a public audience.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Neither <strong>CES<\/strong> nor <strong>FCC <\/strong>has offered a reason for the sudden cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2018\/01\/04\/fcc-commissioner-ajit-pai-vegas-death-threats\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one report<\/a>, the decision may have been based on security concerns. <strong>Pai<\/strong> may have changed his mind because he has received death threats \u2018linked to the Vegas itinerary\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Who made these threats is unclear, so we can\u2019t know how serious they are. Pai has been a target of hostility since he repealed the FCC\u2019s net neutrality rules, so he might just be afraid of the \u2018candid conversation\u2019 he will have about that with CTA president and CEO <strong>Gary Shapiro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t assume anything though. The only thing we can do so is <strong>sympathise with Pai<\/strong>. Not attending one of the hottest shows in the world must be depressing. It\u2019s like you\u2019re not that cool any more.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not be attending the annual Consumer Electronics show (CES 2018) in Las Vegas next week, missing the show for the first time in five years.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[606,817],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":14496},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}