Wouldn’t they just run R1 locally and not have any censorship at all? The model isn’t censored at its core, it’s censored through the system prompt. Perplexity and Huggingface have their own versions of R1 that is not censored.
https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
https://ollama.com/huihui_ai/deepseek-r1-abliterated
I was mistaken though, it is more than just a system prompt causing the censorship.