sure, but then anyone can just spin up a popular name and have them arrested. This is why it doesnt work.
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Would think it would depend on how tyrannical the government is. Some really extreme ones could even spin up accounts of well known dissidents just to have something to arrest them for
they really don't need nostr to plant evidence. I think the best defense is 1,000 nyms all by the popular names all pretending to be them. Make a farce of the attempt at censorship. Whack-a-mole theory.
I still don’t agree. If someone has been posting under their real name on Nostr and has tens of thousands of followers, them turning around and saying to the authorities ‘oh that isn’t actually me posting’ isn’t going to convince anyone, let alone a regime that wants to convict them