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Germany urges Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores over EU privacy concerns
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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We are comparing chatGPT and Deepseek.
Again, not an opinion everyone agrees on. And this very much depends on which factors are cherry picked.
If you want privacy then you need to run locally, and to run locally all you do care about is model weights.
Not sure why this dimension is worth adding to the discussion.
You asked "which countries".
Only people who don't have their heads buried in the sand. You can't possibly believe China is not much much worse than the US. I literally don't believe you. You're a bot or a paid actor.
Wow nuance much?
Yes, China has problems with authoritarianism, and curtailing free speech and such.
But, there’s a lot of good happening there too.
It’s not black and white.
USA v. China is not Gondor v. Mordor.
Have you been to China?
If not, you should 100% go and check it out for yourself!
There's plenty of nuance but that's not relevant in generalities.
No one said it's all bad. There's lots of good everywhere. That doesn't mean everywhere is an equally good place.
What am I going to find out by going there that I can't read about? That I've been lied to? That the CCP isn't blocking information about Tianenmen Square and other govt atrocities? That the mere act of protesting isn't illegal? That they aren't murdering dissidents? Privacy in it's entirety isn't illegal?