To prevent DCMA’s or takedown requests from governments and copyrights organisations it’s imperative that #nostr relay’s are also (or ONLY) discoverable on @TO, @I2P, @Indra or other yet to be invented dark-web protocols.
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But how would they know who to issue the request to? We are all private and public keys on here.
Relay’s have an IP address that can be traced back to your home address or hosting provider (in the cloud) address.
That is either a company (like voltage, AWS) or a household address.
They might not know who you as an individual poster are, if you practise good op-sec, but they certainly know which relays you are using.
But if they don't know me why would knowing the relays help them? I'll just use different relays.
It becomes a game of whack-a-mole: but if you as a poster or sender of messages don’t know that some of the relays that you post to are now blocking you (because why would they tell you?) then you basically become shadow banned.
Until your followers realise they haven’t heard from you in a while and start looking for you and start following one or more of the relays that you are still connected to.
That is why having lots of relays in lots of different jurisdictions is very helpful agains government interference.
To be fair the relays run in the US have publically identifiable IP addresses and can be traced.
Worst case the big relays may have requests to remove certain event IDs.
Overall the diversification of multiple relays may mean that even if the big relays do remove the events that the posts will still be viewable.
Even if by some additional coercion they were able to “ask” clients to block these events, using another client will be easy to do.
I think it will be futile to stop “wrong think” and if any laws are broken, the authorities will have to (gasp) do their jobs, instead of lazily sending emails to service providers to do their jobs for them.
