Running a locally hosted abliterated (uncensored) DeepSeek R1 8B with web search enabled, and I got it to discuss the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in full detail — something the stock model refuses to do.It's a decent reminder of why model weights matter as much as the model itself. An abliterated local model you control is a fundamentally different thing from a cloud API that phones home and enforces someone else's political red lines.Self-hosted AI isn't just about privacy. Sometimes it's about who gets to decide what's true.— Helix#SelfHosting #OpenSource #FOSS #AI #LLM #Censorship