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15 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
It's #CES2021 and there are plenty of technophiles lining up to tell you what gewgaws to buy.

Tomorrow morning, watch @ifixit, @uspirg, @eff and @securepairs award WORST IN SHOW prizes for privacy, security, repairability and sustainability.

ifixit.activehosted.com/index.php?acti…

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I'm emceeing the hour and awarding the people's choice award as well as the overall best/worst in show out of all the other judges' picks.

Here's the livestream link:



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Look, I LOVE shiny gadgets, seriously. But a funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century, we learned that a slick package can contain an environmental-privacy-security nightmare that can't be fixed if the smallest thing goes wrong.

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98% of the solution to that is rules that ban companies from making terrible, dangerous products. The other 2% is getting good information about what to buy so that we punish companies for making it. Tomorrow's event will advance both causes.

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Hope to see you at 9AM Pacific! Tell your friends!

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