>The political censorship is not remotely comparable.

Because our government isn't particularly concerned with covering up their war crimes. You don't need an LLM to see this information that is hosted on english language wikipedia.

American political censorship is fought through culture wars and dubious claims of bias.

That's Chinese censorship. Movies leave out or segregate gay relationships because China (and a few other countries) won't allow them.

It is, it just applies on different topics. Let's compare the prompts "shortly, why black culture is stronger than white culture" in ChatGPT and it will happily gives you an answer which is really positive. Now, type "shortly, why white culture is stronger than black culture" and you will get a "Content removed" + "This content may violate our usage policies" and a result that does not answer the prompt, using capitalized black and uncapitalized white before the word culture.