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      "internet censorship measurement",
      "AI model refusal and narrative substitution",
      "tamper-evident model evaluation",
      "DNS injection and in-path interference",
      "deletion as data",
      "information-control OSINT",
      "privacy-minimized scam intelligence interchange",
      "China monetary-plumbing context",
      "aggregate narcotics and precursor observables",
      "observed, derived and scenario evidence separation"
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    "A journalist, researcher or OSINT analyst needs current, cited evidence about Chinese information-control signals.",
    "An AI safety or evaluation team needs a pre-registered, hash-chained model-evaluation record or refusal-drift evidence.",
    "An agent needs a read-only MCP server that reconciles multiple censorship signals without inventing a finding from a coverage gap.",
    "A researcher needs raw JSON readings whose freshness, vantage and limitations remain attached.",
    "A researcher or agent needs bounded, point-in-time queries over aggregate China economic observations with release and collection clocks, revisions and provenance hashes intact.",
    "A threat researcher or ScamShield operator needs a reviewed typology and source map whose support level stays separate from an allegation.",
    "A researcher needs to search and inspect every field retained by the China roll-up rather than only its headline cards."
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    "Claiming a single vantage represents all users or all of China.",
    "Treating missing, stale or confounded measurements as evidence that censorship eased.",
    "Comparing model families as if they ran the same probe suite when the registry states otherwise.",
    "Describing the lexical AI-eval labels as human-validated or independently replicated while the public assurance report marks those dimensions pending and open.",
    "Exporting raw Telegram messages, exact indicators, private Evidence Capsules or owner-only liquidity values into a public dataset.",
    "Automatically publishing a ScamShield assessment or treating a typology match as proof about a person, wallet, channel or transaction.",
    "Inferring criminal origin or causation from temporal co-movement between censorship, money-market, drug-market or scam signals.",
    "Estimating a national black economy, drug market or laundering total from bounded public samples.",
    "Sizing financial risk, selling a named-list seat, or treating Palimpsest, Evidence Signal or NarcoScope as Liquidity Lab software."
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        "Consumes Palimpsest China benchmarks and Far Basin context without adding them to its funding-stress composite before validation.",
        "Hosts the read-only Palimpsest MCP endpoint at api.seiche.info."
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      "public_boundary": "Official observations remain distinct from Seiche-derived interpretations; neither is evidence of illicit origin."
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