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January 12, 2026
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The most activist, controversial, polarizing — and famous — chairman in FCC history speaks at CES, and almost nobody cares
LAS VEGAS — Drawing a resurgent 148,000 attendees last week, its best post-pandemic turnout yet, the Consumer Electronics Show featured a fireside chat with the most activist, most controversial, most polarizing, most famous chairman the FCC has ever known, the Trump-appointed Brendan Carr.
Largely fawned over for half an hour by interviewer Gary Shapiro, chair and chief exec of CES parent org the Consumer Technology Association, the incendiary media-telecom policy maker known for regulatory shakedowns and tough-guy tweets about “woke” media giants and late-night TV hosts drew a shockingly light gathering. I don’t know, maybe 100 of those 148,000 attendees showed up at the 184-seat LVCC West Hall meeting room.
With nary a boo, hiss or cheer from the largely disengaged, phone-fixated audience, democracy died a little more in the Thursday-morning darkness of LVCC W232. Here are some, er, panel highlights:
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