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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: 0.21s | 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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1. nonameiguess ◴[31 Jan 25 20:58 UTC] No.42891888[source]▶
I think this highly depends on what you classify as change. I trained in policy science at one point and the MOVE incident was a huge case study we discussed to try and figure out at the bureaucrat level of city management how that situation came to be and how we could avoid it.

But the number one thing you learn from this kind of exercise is "political feasability" outweights all other pros and cons of a policy proposal you write up. We know how to prevent this kind of thing but we don't know how to sell it to voters. You see it right here on Hacker News. If it means you'll ever have to see a homeless person shit in public, everyone is immediately up in arms singing in unison "no please, give us stronger, better-armed police." If the Tiananmen Square protesters were blocking a popular commute route, half of America would be in favor of running them over themselves. No military intervention necessary.