川普模因硬幣在 MAGA 世界中造成裂痕

加密貨幣愛好者對唐納德·川普和梅拉尼婭·川普的新「迷因幣」——本質上是美化的交易卡——並不滿意。

Happy Tuesday! Here’s your Tech Drop, my weekly compilation of the past week’s top stories from the intersection of technology and politics.

週二快樂！這是您的 Tech Drop，這是我對過去一周技術與政治交叉領域的熱門故事的每週彙編。

Trump meme coins cause a rift in MAGA world

川普模因硬幣在 MAGA 世界中造成裂痕

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are not thrilled about Donald and Melania Trump’s new “meme coins” — essentially, glorified trading cards. The digital tokens seem like a perfect vessel for anyone, including foreign governments, to funnel money to the Trump family. That’s one reason why some experts have said the ventures — launched within days of Trump’s inauguration — are ripe for blatant corruption.

加密貨幣愛好者對唐納德·川普和梅拉尼婭·川普的新「迷因幣」——本質上是美化的交易卡——並不感到興奮。對於包括外國政府在內的任何人來說，數位代幣似乎都是向川普家族輸送資金的完美工具。這就是為什麼一些專家表示，這些在川普就職後幾天內啟動的企業已經為公然腐敗做好了準備的原因之一。

And even some of Trump’s biggest fans are bemoaning the move. The Wall Street Journal published an article that quotes Trump-supporting crypto bros who are worried that this move will delegitimize the industry. On Monday, the Rev. Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who gave the benediction at Trump’s swearing-in, announced that he also has launched a meme coin. Probably not helping with that whole legitimacy thing.

就連川普的一些鐵粉也對此舉表示遺憾。 《華爾街日報》發表了一篇文章，引用了支持川普的加密貨幣兄弟的言論，他們擔心此舉將使該行業失去合法性。週一，在川普宣誓就職時給予祝福的牧師洛倫佐·休厄爾(Rev. Lorenzo Sewell)宣布，他還推出了一款表情包硬幣。可能對整個合法性問題沒有幫助。

Read more at The Wall Street Journal.

請閱讀《華爾街日報》以了解更多資訊。

TikTok’s legal limbo

TikTok 的法律困境

Trump’s executive order requiring the postponement of the TikTok ban, which was set to take effect in the U.S. this week, appears to have saved the app for now. At least, that’s what Trump and the app’s owners want us to think.

川普要求推遲原定於本週在美國生效的 TikTok 禁令的行政命令似乎暫時拯救了該應用程式。至少，川普和該應用程式的所有者希望我們這麼想。

But Business Insider published an article raising questions about Trump’s authority to single-handedly overrule a law that received overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court.

但《商業內幕》發表了一篇文章，對川普是否有權單槍匹馬否決一項在國會獲得兩黨壓倒性支持並得到最高法院一致支持的法律提出質疑。

Read more at Business Insider.

閱讀《商業內幕》以了解更多內容。

Creepy ‘surveillance pricing’

令人毛骨悚然的“監控定價”

In one of its last acts during the Biden administration, the Federal Trade Commission and its then-chair, Lina Khan, revealed the initial findings of the agency’s “surveillance pricing” market study. The report shows how companies can manipulate pricing based on personal data. According to the FTC, “details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.”

在拜登執政期間的最後一項行動中，聯邦貿易委員會及其時任主席莉娜·汗透露了該機構「監督定價」市場研究的初步結果。該報告展示了公司如何根據個人資料操縱定價。根據聯邦貿易委員會的說法，“一個人的精確位置或瀏覽器歷史記錄等詳細信息經常被用來以不同的價格購買相同的商品和服務來瞄準個體消費者。”

Read more at the FTC.

請造訪聯邦貿易委員會以了解更多資訊。

Kristi Noem’s concerning misinfo plans

克里斯蒂·諾姆關於錯誤訊息計劃

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, whom Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Homeland Security, says she wants to shut down the department’s efforts at fighting foreign actors’ misinformation campaigns targeting Americans, effectively saying she wants to leave Americans vulnerable to manipulation.

川普提名領導國土安全部的南達科他州州長克里斯蒂·諾姆表示，她希望停止該部門打擊外國行為者針對美國人的虛假信息活動的努力，實際上是在說她想讓美國人容易受到操縱。

Read more at The ReidOut Blog.

請造訪 ReidOut 部落格以了解更多資訊。

Biden’s FCC chair warns about Trump

拜登的聯邦通訊委員會主席對川普發出警告

On her way out the door, outgoing Federal Communication Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel warned about Trump’s efforts to suppress free speech and press freedoms. In a post last week, I wrote about the statement she released while dismissing multiple complaints from activist groups seeking to punish news outlets for coverage they didn’t like.

即將離任的聯邦通信委員會主席傑西卡·羅森沃塞爾在出門時警告川普壓制言論自由和新聞自由的行為。在上週的一篇文章中，我寫了她發表的聲明，同時駁回了激進團體的多項投訴，這些團體試圖懲罰他們不喜歡的報道的新聞媒體。

Rosenworcel compared Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment to actions taken by Presidents Richard Nixon and John Adams, and she also cited his push to “revoke licenses for broadcast television stations because he disagrees with their content and coverage” — noting that the FCC “has a duty to respect the Constitution.”

羅森沃塞爾將川普對第一修正案的攻擊與理查德·尼克森和約翰·亞當斯總統採取的行動進行了比較，她還引用了川普推動「撤銷廣播電視台的許可證，因為他不同意廣播電視台的內容和報道”——並指出聯邦通信委員會“有一個尊重憲法的義務。

Read more at The ReidOut Blog.

請造訪 ReidOut 部落格以了解更多資訊。

Bigwigs snicker at Sewell’s remarks

大佬們對休厄爾的言論嗤之以鼻

The aforementioned pastor, Sewell, has garnered criticism — including from MSNBC’s Joy Reid — for his inaugural benediction, which borrowed from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and relied on what seemed like an overdone Black preacher affect. One thing I noted? Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick seemingly found the performance pretty funny as they watched and snickered in the background.

上述牧師休厄爾（Sewell）因其就職祝福而受到批評，其中包括來自微軟全國廣播公司（MSNBC）的喬伊·里德（Joy Reid），他的就職祝福借用了小馬丁·路德·金牧師的「我有一個夢想」演講，並依賴似乎過度的黑人傳教士影響。我注意到一件事？谷歌執行長桑達爾·皮查伊和坎托·菲茨杰拉德首席執行官霍華德·盧特尼克似乎覺得這場表演很有趣，他們在後台觀看並竊笑。

To me, the sight — of MAGA-aligned elites giggling during a King-inspired performance on MLK Day — epitomized some of the disrespect that Black people have come to expect from Trump and his movement.

對我來說，在馬丁路德金紀念日一場受金啟發的表演中，支持「讓美國再次偉大」的精英們咯咯笑的景象，集中體現了黑人對川普及其運動的不尊重。

A far-right influencer speaks … gibberish

一位極右翼影響者的言論…胡言亂語

Far-right influencer Curtis Yarvin — who has pushed racist pseudoscience, promoted the idea of dictatorial leadership and been name-checked by J.D. Vance — gave an interview to The New York Times recently. The interview, in which Yarvin explains his belief that the Civil War didn’t improve anyone’s lives — including enslaved people’s — is a perfect example of how pseudo-intellectual jargon and obfuscation can be used to mask bigotry.

極右翼影響者柯蒂斯·雅文 (Curtis Yarvin) 宣揚種族主義偽科學，宣揚獨裁領導思想，並受到 JD 萬斯 (JD Vance) 的點名，最近接受了《紐約時報》的採訪。在訪談中，亞文解釋了他的信念，即內戰並沒有改善任何人的生活——包括被奴役的人的生活——這是一個完美的例子，說明瞭如何利用偽知識分子的行話和混淆視聽來掩蓋偏見。

Read more at The New York Times.

閱讀《紐約時報》以了解更多內容。