That was me. Ironically, I wasn't necessarily trying to trip it up. I was trying to ascertain whether China was open to all information as was argued to me by someone on X. I figured if I asked Grok, it would be disregarded as western propaganda so I figured deepseek would probably give me the same answer which I know to be true. I was surprised by the results.

Weirdly, they either changed the site or I haven't been able to find the same site again to replicate it. Now when I go to that site I am asked to sign in which I won't do.

I think any time anything is made open source or given away for free, society benefits as a whole. I can acknowledge China's commitment to apparent censorship and still applaud the open sourcing of the tech. I don't know if I'd consider them a "David" though. Being the most populous nation and a world superpower, they have definite advantages.

ETA: Also, it didn't necessarily refuse to discuss it. It just threw an error.