{"id":3644,"date":"2025-02-03T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:40:36","slug":"texas-governor-orders-ban-on-deepseek-rednote-for-government-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/?p=3644","title":{"rendered":"Texas governor orders ban on DeepSeek, RedNote for government devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a ban on Chinese&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/deepseek-ai-chatgpt-openai-copyright-a94168f3b8caa51623ce1b75b5ffcc51\">artificial intelligence company DeepSeek<\/a>&nbsp;for government-issued devices, becoming the first state to restrict the popular chatbot in such a manner. The upstart AI platform has sent shockwaves throughout the AI community after gaining popularity amongst American users in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor also prohibited popular Chinese-owned social media apps&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-xiaohongshu-tiktok-ban-refugees-c7f440803128ef50f0ade44d16068f01\">Xiaohongshu<\/a>, or what some are calling RedNote, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lemon8-tiktok-ban-alternative-creators-4d9328b4312681cc4f6dcb5d81a5e464\">Lemon8<\/a>&nbsp;from all state-issued devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTexas will not allow the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate our state\u2019s critical infrastructure through data-harvesting AI and social media apps,\u201d Abbott said in a statement. \u201cTexas will continue to protect and defend our state from hostile foreign actors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor\u2019s office declined to comment further for this story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI startup DeepSeek has rocked markets upon demonstrating its capacity to compete with industry leader OpenAI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. also users&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-xiaohongshu-tiktok-ban-refugees-c7f440803128ef50f0ade44d16068f01\">flocked to Xiaohongshu<\/a>&nbsp;in the days leading up to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tiktok-bytedance-trump-perplexity-87988733973760927bb5681f7de9b9af\">TikTok\u2019s short-lived ban<\/a>. It\u2019s a popular app in China and surrounding countries \u2014 such as Malaysia and Taiwan \u2014 with roughly 300 million active users that many Americans were using as a replacement doe TikTok, and as a form of protest against the ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lemon8 is also a Chinese company owned by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. The social media app also gained traction in the days leading up to the original TikTok ban on Jan. 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas, along with many other states and the federal government, has banned TikTok on government devices. The app\u2019s future remains in limbo after President Trump issued an executive order to give ByteDance more time to divest TikTok\u2019s U.S. operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ByteDance did not immediately return an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewworld.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}