Many people outside China are getting their first taste of Chinese censorship, as the country’s tech services explode in popularity worldwide.
First, TikTok’s recent brief shutdown in the U.S. prompted hundreds of thousands of users to flock to Chinese social-media app RedNote, where they found many topics to be off-limits. And now much the same is happening with DeepSeek, a new China-based generative AI service that caused market turmoil on Monday because it challenges current leaders like OpenAI and Google, while requiring far less spending on AI infrastructure.
