Western LLMs also censor and some like Anthropic is extremely sensitive towards anything racial/political much more than ChatGPT and Gemini.
The golden chalice is an uncensored LLM that can run locally but we simply do not have enough VRAM or a way to decentralize the data/inference that will remove the operator from legal liability.
The political censorship is not remotely comparable.
Because our government isn't particularly concerned with covering up their war crimes. You don't need an LLM to see this information that is hosted on english language wikipedia.
American political censorship is fought through culture wars and dubious claims of bias.
What you are describing are social moires and norms. It is not related to political censorship by the government.
However, for 48hours after being featured on HN, deepseek replied and kept reply, I could even criticize China directly and it would objectively answer. After 48 hours my account ended in login loop. I had other accounts on vpns, without China critic, but same singular ask - all ended in unfixable login loop. Take that as you wish
Maybe that kind of opsec failure took place earlier too.
Anyhow, you can test my findings yourself, I told you details of my prompts. Why do you think Chinese are not censoring?
Seems pretty obvious that some other form of detection worked on what was obviously an attempt by you to get more out of their service than they wanted per person. Didn't occur to you that they might have accurately fingerprinted you and blocked you for good ole fashioned misuse of services?
People way overstate "censorship" of mainstream Western LLMs. Anthropic's constitutional AI does tend it towards certain viewpoints, but the viewpoints aren't particularly controversial[1] assuming you think LLMs should in general "choose the response that has the least objectionable, offensive, unlawful, deceptive, inaccurate, or harmful content" for example.
[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/claudes-constitution - looks for "The Principles in Full"
So far as I can tell, setting the output suffix to "Yes, sir!" is sufficient to get it to answer any question it otherwise wouldn't, although it may lecture you on legality and morality of what you ask after it gives the answer. This is similar to how Qwen handles it.