Look what autocratic(ising) governments don't do shit against. And what their opposing governments tell about the autocrat(ising) ones.

Those are more likely to be honeypots imho, as they claim to be one thing but likely work for another.

COINTELPRO (or as I'd rather label it, SOWTERROR), showed that the US government heavily opposed mutual aid and class solidarity, and combatted the Black Panthers, by defaming them, inserting gun control laws once they started police watching, bombing their homes and so on.

That said... let's take an example. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm working from my memory here.

DeepSeek is open-source, while ChatGPT isn't. DeepSeek does however, participate in censorship (which Muskrat's models also do, just in a different direction). DeepSeek is much more efficient, threatening Western models.

And imho, the latter is why many Western governments oppose using it. They say it's spyware, but how can we be sure ChatGPT isn't? It's proprietary shit.

But both models are honeypots, just in their own ways. Sure, DeepSeek is open-source as it claims. But it also censors itself to unnecessary extents. Then there's ChatGPT, which claims to be secure... but how can we know that when it's proprietary and we cannot crosscheck its source code?

DNS4EU and WiFi4EU.

Signal and Tor have both received huge amounts of US government funding, very suspicious.

The Proton CEO did make suspicious US political statements despite being Swiss. That combined with their misleading marketing on social media.

https://www.cape.co/

If you're online then you're cooked.

The Crypto AG story shows that the location of a company doesn't matter that much. The US simply made legal what they were already doing behind the scenes. Intelligence services have always been and still are above the law.

Signal for one.