Sure, but you also have to recognize the motte and bailey form of argument here. If we’re limiting the claim to being true if DeepSeek returns refusals on politically sensitive topics, we already knew that. It was relevant eight months ago, now it’s not interesting.
Another example: McDonald’s fries may cause you to grow horns or raise your blood pressure. No one talks like that.
So I would toss it back to you: we are programmers but we have common sense. The author was clearly banking on something other than the technically accurate logical or.