People in the Nostr space are very smug.

It seems they somehow believe that they're superhacker opsec ninja gods that will forever live in the shadow and no government bureaucrat will ever be able to touch them. Then some random Twitter bitch doxxes one of them in like ten minutes from her home computer and everybody freaks the fuck out.

If totalitarian bureaucracies like the UK, Australia, the EU haven't come after Nostr relays yet, it's simply because they don't even know Nostr exists. It's not even a blip on their radar. The moment this gets any traction, they will turn their eyes on us, and the extortion will begin. KYC zaps, content removal by judiciary order, geoblocking...

The only way to prevent this is to implement true relays. That is, dumb relays that cannot in any way alter the traffic and don't do anything other than RELAYING. And even then, it will be tough if the EU for instance decides relays are still responsible.

But don't listen to the paranoid anti-government anarchist, he's exaggerating and we're superspy hax00rs in the shadows and no three letter agency, or transnational bureaucracy will ever find us...! They will not be convinced until we have our own Nostr Ross Ulbricht.