Nostr Web Client

Morning, 5am in são paulo. I'm on nostr since yesterday and was wondering the following.

Hypothetical: what if the level of engagement of nostr in Brazil was at the level of X or even higher. How would the supreme court be able to block the public's access to it due to a supposed "threat to democracy"?

I didn't follow the months long spat between musk and the supreme court justice but I believe they wanted 7 accounts blocked and musk didn't comply.

How could such demands be enforced here? Would they possibly demand nostr clients to be removed from app stores if deemed that the public's access to information available here should be limited? Force relay servers offline? Anything? Thanks and have a wonderful day #asknostr #brazil #censorship #nostr

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techjunkie 1y ago

It would be way harder to ban because relays could be taken down but popup somewhere else. There are many apps that work on the #nostr protocol and don’t need an appstore. Also devs are exploring ways to run relays on your phone.

drayah 1y ago

Relays on phones, interesting 🤔

Robot Lightning 1y ago

My 2c

You're right it would be hard. There is no one company to go after, no one CEO in charge, and even if they attacked all companies and all CEOs of all clients and all relays, they still have no ability to prevent users from easily starting their own relays or clients and publishing to the network.

Hypothetically they could make it illegal for users to use it, just as they have made it illegal to access Twitter via a VPN. But it would be I think much harder for them to enforce as it would be hard for them to identify that you are a user – as you could be using any client and any relay, hosted anywhere.