Dear Hugging Face / open‑r1 Project Team,

Greetings!

First of all, thank you for your efforts and contributions in the open-source community. The open-source spirit has always been a driving force in technological progress and in benefiting humanity. In today’s environment of information exchange, it is particularly commendable to adhere to principles of openness, transparency, and freedom. We sincerely hope that you will continue to uphold these values and work toward making your technology accessible to a wider audience.

We would also like to bring up a related matter. Currently, some platforms—such as deepseek—appear to enforce strict content moderation policies that may lean toward certain viewpoints, which, in turn, might result in what can be seen as “pollution” of open discourse. We believe that the open-source community should remain a place for diverse perspectives and free expression. With this in mind, we offer the following suggestions:

Uphold the Open-Source Spirit:
Continue to focus on benefiting humanity by fully respecting the principles of knowledge sharing and free flow of information throughout your project’s development and maintenance.

Explore Reverse Open Source Approaches:
Consider leveraging the idea of reverse open sourcing, which involves using open-source methods to critically assess and mitigate the risks of information pollution resulting from excessive content censorship. This approach could help ensure that your project’s code and content remain free from unnecessary external restrictions and foster true free exchange of ideas.

Establish Transparent and Inclusive Community Governance:
Develop clear governance rules and open communication channels within the community to ensure that decision-making processes and content management are transparent and fair. Such measures would help safeguard the diversity and innovative spirit of the open-source community by preventing overzealous content censorship.

We firmly believe that by respecting and safeguarding the free flow of information, the open-source community can reach its full potential. We hope you will consider these suggestions as you continue your journey in creating technologies that truly benefit humanity, and in doing so, help cleanse the open-source world of the negative effects of content censorship.

Thank you once again for your contributions to the open-source movement. We look forward to seeing more outstanding achievements from your team in the future!