特朗普模因硬币在 MAGA 世界中造成裂痕

加密货币爱好者对唐纳德·特朗普和梅拉尼娅·特朗普的新“模因币”——本质上是美化的交易卡——并不满意。

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

周二快乐！这是您的 Tech Drop，这是我对过去一周技术与政治交叉领域的热门故事的每周汇编。

Trump meme coins cause a rift in MAGA world

特朗普模因硬币在 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.

加密货币爱好者对唐纳德·特朗普和梅拉尼娅·特朗普的新“模因币”——本质上是美化的交易卡——并不感到兴奋。对于包括外国政府在内的任何人来说，数字代币似乎都是向特朗普家族输送资金的完美工具。这就是为什么一些专家表示，这些在特朗普就职后几天内启动的企业已经为公然腐败做好了准备的原因之一。

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.

就连特朗普的一些铁杆粉丝也对此举表示遗憾。 《华尔街日报》发表了一篇文章，引用了支持特朗普的加密货币兄弟的言论，他们担心此举将使该行业失去合法性。周一，在特朗普宣誓就职时给予祝福的牧师洛伦佐·休厄尔(Rev. Lorenzo Sewell)宣布，他还推出了一款表情包硬币。可能对整个合法性问题没有帮助。

Read more at The Wall Street Journal.

请阅读《华尔街日报》了解更多信息。

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.

特朗普要求推迟原定于本周在美国生效的 TikTok 禁令的行政命令似乎暂时拯救了该应用程序。至少，特朗普和该应用程序的所有者希望我们这么想。

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《商业内幕》发表了一篇文章，对特朗普是否有权单枪匹马否决一项在国会获得两党压倒性支持并得到最高法院一致支持的法律提出质疑。

Read more at Business Insider.

阅读《商业内幕》了解更多内容。

Creepy ‘surveillance pricing’

令人毛骨悚然的“监控定价”

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.”

在拜登执政期间的最后一项行动中，联邦贸易委员会及其时任主席莉娜·汗透露了该机构“监督定价”市场研究的初步结果。该报告展示了公司如何根据个人数据操纵定价。根据联邦贸易委员会的说法，“一个人的精确位置或浏览器历史记录等详细信息经常被用来以不同的价格购买相同的商品和服务来瞄准个体消费者。”

Read more at the FTC.

请访问联邦贸易委员会了解更多信息。

Kristi Noem’s concerning misinfo plans

克里斯蒂·诺姆关于错误信息计划

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.

特朗普提名领导国土安全部的南达科他州州长克里斯蒂·诺姆表示，她希望停止该部门打击外国行为者针对美国人的虚假信息活动的努力，实际上是在说她想让美国人容易受到操纵。

Read more at The ReidOut Blog.

请访问 ReidOut 博客了解更多信息。

Biden’s FCC chair warns about Trump

拜登的联邦通信委员会主席对特朗普发出警告

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.

即将离任的联邦通信委员会主席杰西卡·罗森沃塞尔在出门时警告特朗普压制言论自由和新闻自由的行为。在上周的一篇文章中，我写了她发表的声明，同时驳回了激进团体的多项投诉，这些团体试图惩罚他们不喜欢的报道的新闻媒体。

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.”

罗森沃塞尔将特朗普对第一修正案的攻击与理查德·尼克松和约翰·亚当斯总统采取的行动进行了比较，她还引用了特朗普推动“撤销广播电视台的许可证，因为他不同意广播电视台的内容和报道”——并指出联邦通信委员会“有一个尊重宪法的义务。”

Read more at The ReidOut Blog.

请访问 ReidOut 博客了解更多信息。

Bigwigs snicker at Sewell’s remarks

大佬们对休厄尔的言论嗤之以鼻

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.

上述牧师休厄尔（Sewell）因其就职祝福而受到批评，其中包括来自微软全国广播公司（MSNBC）的乔伊·里德（Joy Reid），他的就职祝福借用了小马丁·路德·金牧师的“我有一个梦想”演讲，并依赖于似乎过分的黑人传教士影响。我注意到一件事？谷歌首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊和坎托·菲茨杰拉德首席执行官霍华德·卢特尼克似乎觉得这场表演很有趣，他们在后台观看并窃笑。

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.

对我来说，在马丁路德金纪念日一场受金启发的表演中，支持“让美国再次伟大”的精英们咯咯笑的景象，集中体现了黑人对特朗普及其运动的不尊重。

A far-right influencer speaks … gibberish

一位极右翼影响者的言论……胡言乱语

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.

极右翼影响者柯蒂斯·雅文 (Curtis Yarvin) 宣扬种族主义伪科学，宣扬独裁领导思想，并受到 JD 万斯 (JD Vance) 的点名，最近接受了《纽约时报》的采访。在采访中，亚文解释了他的信念，即内战并没有改善任何人的生活——包括被奴役的人的生活——这是一个完美的例子，说明了如何利用伪知识分子的行话和混淆视听来掩盖偏见。

Read more at The New York Times.

阅读《纽约时报》了解更多内容。