Users can blast to as many relays as they want though. Toddler-con from Japan for example, can spread all over nostr and theres nothing anyone can do.
Now imaging muting or blocking an entire countries userbase manually.......
Discussion
Yeah I see.. there's where paid Relays, or the ones like Damus has, help to prevent that kind of spam.
Not sure if there is a solution for it.. public relays are just like public squares, everything can happen, there's no State or Authority that can block it.
Probably that's how global should be, and we should create tools that permits us to navigate every realay with the possibilities to unsee what we know we will not like..
Maybe in the future we can choose an AI tool that will read images and analize if there's content you chose not ro see and will block it for you before you read the note.. so there's no manually block, the tool already knows what you do want or not want to see.
Misskey Software for the fediverse actually has those AI capabilities now which is cool.
New users wont like having to pay right away and wont know about that yet.
This will be an interesting problem to see solved. Once the Pedos and Japanese Toddler-con base moves, its over. A lot of it is coming through the mostr.pub relay now .