Indeed! But I was thinking more in this expanding culture of control among earth's govs. I just think there is a false sense of superiority or security at Nostr because of the fact of its permissionless open nature (which is great), but the weight would be on big relay operators, and as i often point, there's no need for total censorship to have a person muted in practice, or to make it become a pariah (abandon an nsec and create a different identity) in order to be able to express something.
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It's only permissionless when it comes to companies. Governments can deny you permissions to do things by shooting you dead if they so decide.
I agree the sense of superiority is partially false, when it come to resistance towards governments. But, again, taking power away from the hands of companies is already a worthwhile goal.
No protocol can solve this because if a government makes saying something illegal, one would have to never attach that statement with one's name if one is in that government's jurisdiction.
But attaching one's name to a statement, in public, is part of one's fundamental human right to freedom of speech, so the issue can't truly be solved through any technical solution.
Could not agree more! 🤝