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This is not protecting peoples privacy but straight censorship. Just like how US wanted to ban TikTok.
US want to ban TikTok, because it's a Chinese company, it has nothing to do with privacy, while in the EU a service must fullfit the GDPR to be allowed to offer their service in the EU and DeepSeek, among others, don't. This has a lot to do with the privacy rights in the EU, those which in the USA don't exist, not with censorship. Privacy is a basic right in the EU and not even the Police can access sensible personal data or track your activity without an court order, less aprivate company for advertising reasons or for training their AIs. But yes, right wing politicians in Germany want to change this, but this isn't so easy in a working Democracy where it need to be approved with a majorit in th Bundestag.
Genuine question; what’s the difference between DeepSeek gathering data and for example ChatGPT or Gemini?
Three of them are (I assume) great for usage but disastrous regard privacy and data.
chatgpt and gemini gather data for the US govt, which is the one actively fucking europe over at the moment. so clearly, deepseek is what they need to worry about.
Genuine question; what’s the difference between DeepSeek gathering data and for example ChatGPT or Gemini?
because China bad and USA good :(
AFAIK per EU law the collected data has to stay in data centers in the EU, ChatGPT and Gemini at least pretend to conform while Deepseek explicitly states that the data is stored in Chinese data centers.
Yes but you see a white man having control of your data is much better than a colored one!
They can pretty easily just pass a law banning it and Apple and Google will remove it from the German app store
This is just xenophobia and political posturing, actual policy is too much to ask.
but why? there is not valid reason to remove only DeepSeek, they should remove AI all together including Gemini and ChatGPT
It's a cold war thing
Okay, then tell them that. I’m just saying urging is stupid. Lawmakers can make laws.
Everyone here knows that not how policy is made.
US corpos tell EU what they need, EU does it. China does not have such sway with EU with some exceptions.
Your regime whore politician would not take a piss on you, if you were on fire.
Germany’s going hard right again. Severe crackdowns on civil rights are escalating. They’re arresting people for posting criticism of political efforts online, ramping up their military, pushing far-right politicians into office, etc.
Time to eradicate the Nazis again.
I'm from Spain, we also have problems with nazis, but not so as in Germany, but our left gov has a hard time with these hooligans.
Bist du dumm oder sowas?
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ramping up their military
Naive take on this point tbh... Germany is being forced by its allies to do its share for the alliance. I am sure Germany's nazi nepo baby leadership would rather be buying Russian gas right now to drive its industrial base but geopolitics are a bitch lol
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