It's not censorship proof. It's more censorship resistant than a single centralised service.
A relay operator is storing notes for people to access. I assume they will need to comply with UK law if people from the UK are using their service or risk jail/ fines.
So I guess there's nothing to stop someone from running nodes in countries that can't be affected by UK law enforcement.
If a relay operator probably running for free or at a loss wants to take on the British State, fair play 😂
Thanks for the explanation. You've pointed out the key bits.
And nostr:nprofile1qqs9c79vczgdj4wgqax2fttyxz2jtrawzz0vh6a3w6z6tmvuevgca5gpzus8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqppamhxue69uhkztnwdaejumr0dsdjez37, cheers for taking the time to record your thoughts. Yours is an important perspective.
The crux of this thing, IMO, is that "we" (nostr) are facing stress tests of how censorship-resistant the tech really is. The cretons passing these laws and using threat of global reach to enforce vs individuals hosting relays/nodes on the network—how fair a fight is it? I think it comes down to how trivially could an individual be located and identified as running a service, which comes down to how robust the anonymity provided by those services is.
Does this mean running over VPN, Tor, something else? I'm not qualified to make those determinations, as most won't be. But it's time to find out.
