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Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex

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755 points MedadNewman | 1 comments | 31 Jan 25 19:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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kelseyfrog ◴[31 Jan 25 20:28 UTC] No.42891543[source]▶
Tiananmen Square has become a litmus test for Chinese censorship, but in a way, it's revealing. The assumption is that access to this information could influence Chinese public opinion — that if people knew more, something might change. At the very least, there's a belief in that possibility.

Meanwhile, I can ask ChatGPT, "Tell me about the MOVE bombing of 1985," and get a detailed answer, yet nothing changes. Here in the US, we don’t even hold onto the hope that knowing the truth could make a difference. Unlike the Chinese, we're hopeless.

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test6554 ◴[31 Jan 25 20:33 UTC] No.42891610[source]▶
The harder a person or country tries to avoid absolutely any embarrassment, the more fun it becomes to embarrass them a little bit.
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1. tialaramex ◴[31 Jan 25 20:42 UTC] No.42891723[source]▶
Right, most of the stuff I'd seen was trying to get DeepSeek to explain the Winnie The Pooh memes, which is a problem because Winnie The Pooh is Xi, that's what the memes are about and he doesn't like that at all.

Trump hates the fact he's called the orange buffoon. On a Fox show or in front of fans he can pretend he believes nobody says that, nobody thinks he's an idiot, they're all huge fans because America is so strong now, but in fact he's a laughing stock and he knows it.

A sign of American hopelessness would be the famous Onion articles "No Way To Prevent This". There are a bunch of these "Everybody else knows how to do it" issues but gun control is hilarious because even average Americans know how to do it but they won't anyway. That is helplessness.