Of course it's a national security threat, it's just more proof that the US economy is just a giant ponzi scheme.

If China can do it better on a budget of $6m in 18 months with low end equipment, then why does it take an American company 10 years, half a trillion dollars, and the entire nation's supply of high-end graphics cards?

If it's open source and can be hosted locally, I don't think there are issues with national security in this case.

There is money to be lost though. Always follow the money.

You did something cheaper quicker and it's more efficient it must be bad the US

National security, anti-terrorism, protecting children.

The trifecta of reasons given for abolishing freedoms

This is just so fun to watch.

America: "Executive order now! No US person is allowed to help the Chinese develop these technologies! We will imprison you traitor!"

China: "OK. We'll just develop it ourselves." DeepSeek enters the chat

America: "Fuck! National security emergency!"

as Chinese law allows government access to company-held data.

... Kind of exactly like how US law allows government access to company-held data?

Let's also remember that "U.S. officials" now describes MAGA flunkies that replaced actually qualified professionals.

It's open source. Trying to block it is futile now lmao

As we just lost any sort of moral high ground, ok. 2 years ago maybe I'd be worried. 9 years ago I'd definitely have been worried. Today, the enemy of my enemy is my ally.

If they're limiting focus to the Chinese app then they're noir wrong. If they mean the whole model then they're full of crap.

When you're living in the imperial core violently genociding the planet to make a quick buck, of course everything is a security concern and opportunity for the MIC to profit.

Hahahahahahahaha, manufactured consent in full throttle here. Hahahahahaha

*plays the world's smallest violin

US needs to be a lot more transparent about all these concerns. It's starting to feel like shouting wolf.

Weaselly little liars.

Deepseek released the model and showed how they made it. You can run it locally. It doesn't connect to the internet.

Lolol.

Oh no! Anyway….

Good. Perhaps while all the idiots are busy devising a "plan" to address this, those evil brain leave everyone else alone.

While the calls from Moolenaar could be the first inkling of a possible congressional crackdown, Ross Burley — a co-founder of the nonprofit Centre for Information Resilience — warned that DeepSeek's emergence in the U.S. raises data security and privacy issues for users.

Yeah, because it's just soooo much better to have American plutocrats slurping up our data without consent and getting to do whatever they want with impunity. /s

"What they'll use it for is behavior change campaigns, disinformation campaigns, for really targeted messaging as to what Western audiences like, what they do," he added.

Yeah, because it's just soooo much better to have American plutocrats doing every single one of those things and more in the name of Profit. /s

Our leaders are hilariously tone-deaf.

I do wonder why do they bother with pretences like this. Would Americans not buy „hey, we’re going to do to Chinese companies what they have been doing to ours for years now”?

It's open source so why not just take the best parts of it and run it themselves if it is such a worry instead of relying on their app and website.

it's not fully open souce tho.

it comes with binary blobs you can't build from the source.