Replace every instance of "PRC" with "U.S.", DeepSeek with OpenAI/Anthropic, and replace "U.S." with any other nation, and maybe remove the last sentence. How does it sound now? Both nations may as well just say it - "we're banning it because they're our closest competitor".

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nashashmi 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The difference is that local US companies have agency to refuse government overreach while Chinese companies are weaker in this regard. Chinese companies are more vulnerable to its govts pressure.

	▲	wickedsickeune 33 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As it has been proven multiple times with the current US administration, no, US companies do not have the agency to refuse government overreach, they can just purchase favours (which I highly doubt is different from PRC and its government).
	▲	dannyw an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		National Security Letters. Or, worst comes to worst, as Snowden has revealed, the NSA will just clandestinely hack American companies, as they did to Google when they rolled out TLS for search.
	▲	deaux 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> The difference is that local US companies have agency to refuse government overreach We're on HN, not The Onion's comment section. People will take this seriously rather than sarcasm. It was sarcasm, right?