As far as I remember the model itself is not censored it’s just on their chat interface. My experience was that it wrote about it but then just before finishing deleted what it wrote

I haven't tried the full model, but I did try one of the distilled ones on my laptop, and it refused to talk about tiananmen square or other topics the CCP didn't want it to discuss.

Can confirm the model itself has no trouble talking about contentious issues in China.

It is somewhat censored, but when you're running models locally and you're in full control of the generation, it's trivial to work around this kind of stuff (just start the response with whatever tokens you want and let it complete; "Yes sir! Right away, sir!" works quite nicely).

What percentage of your LLM use is talking about Tiananmen Square?

Well, for that one, it was a pretty high percentage. I asked it three or four questions like that and then decided I didn't trust it and deleted the model.