In Arkansas ... you can't honk your horn near a sandwich shop after 9 p.m.

In California ... it's illegal to whistle for a lost canary before 7 a.m.

In Colorado ... it's illegal to keep a couch on your porch.

In Delaware ... you can't sell dog hair

In Georgia ... it's illegal to live on a boat for more than 30 days.

In Hawaii ... it's illegal to place a coin in one's ear

In Idaho ... it's illegal to sweep debris into the streets.

In Illinois ... it's legal for underage culinary students to drink alcohol

In Indiana ... it's illegal to ride a horse above 10 MPH

In Kansas ... tire screeching is banned

In Kentucky ... a woman cannot marry the same man four times

In Louisiana ... it's illegal to send a surprise pizza.

In Maine ... it's illegal to park in front of Dunkin' Donuts

In Maryland ... sleeveless shirts are banned in public parks

In Massachusetts ... it's illegal to tell fortunes without certification

In Michigan ... you can't sell your vehicle on a Sunday.

In Minnesota ... dirty tires are banned.

In Missouri ... bear wrestling is banned

In Montana ... it's illegal to give a rat as a present

In Nebraska ... you can't get married if you have a venereal disease.

In Nevada ... it's illegal to sit on sidewalks.

In New Hampshire ... it's unlawful to pick up seaweed off the beach

In New Jersey ... bullet-proof vests are banned while committing a crime.

In New Mexico ... "idiots" are banned from voting

In New York ... slippers are banned after 10 p.m

In North Carolina ... drunk bingo is unlawful

In Pennsylvania ... you're breaking the law if you pay a psychic

Possible. But people still can have access to both. Not sure that's the case of X or cash. Can you pay with cash if your country is cashless? Sure, but in very rare cases. Can you use X if it's not in the AppStore? You can, maybe. Bitcoin & Nostr gives you more options and probably will have more network effect if government try to ban it. Because they are way more accessible and independent from central authority.

I wonder. Governments say you shouldn’t pirate shit…

But it’s not just one thing in that scenario. It’s a Gordian knot of a bunch of things using some particular communication protocol among many other communications protocols. Government bans work best on the public when they have one clear thing to propagandize. Like “cannabis is really really bad!” or “Musk isn’t above the law, so we will ban X until he complies to prevent disinformation!” It’s much harder to play perpetual whack-a-mole with a bunch of different things. The propaganda narrative becomes diffused and unclear, the cost to enforce goes up, people might not even know what underlying technologies different apps use, etc.

Not sure it's possible.

But that goes to my final point. Imagine in the future if normies used all sorts of apps that tie into Nostr. Like it just becomes normal, because the interoperability makes them better apps over time. It becomes very hard for a government like Brazil to ban something like that. Imagine countless popular apps and websites across multiple categories going dark at once.

Well, what will happen then? Some people will follow orders, others (fewer) will not obey. Or what is your thought?

I don't think "blocking relays" will work. A threat of 10 years in jail if they got caught connecting to nostr relays would do the trick.

We don't have a tech problem. We have a people are hypnotized by the state for tens of thousands of years of problem.

Gm.

It seems that it will be very hard for Brazil to identify and enforce the fines on VPN usage for Twitter/X. But it’s a powerful scare tactic.

When the United States banned gold ownership in the1930s (which lasted for four decades all the way into the 1970s btw), they didn’t really enforce it at the household level. They just had large prison terms that were rarely ever applied, which effectively dried up liquidity in the gold market.

Some people have pointed out that Nostr relays could be blocked by Brazilian internet providers if Nostr was big enough to matter. However, more relays could spin up, so they’d have to keep adding to the list.

Brazil’s government could then say it’s illegal to use VPNs for any Nostr app around internet censoring. The defense against that is to make Nostr as ubiquitous as possible. The more apps that tie into Nostr in some way, the harder it is to ever ban it in practice. Some people might not even know their favorite app uses Nostr. Imagine if everyone’s favorite short form app, long form app, podcasting app, reviews app, wallet app, recipes app, picture app, music app, and tons of other stuff are tied into Nostr, and how hard that would be to ban.

If Nostr becomes big enough to really matter, it’s because it’ll be tied into so many different things. That’s super powerful. And the devs keep building rapidly.

Ban X - people will use Nostr.

Ban cash - people will use Bitcoin.

Life finds a way.

We’re basically a refugee camp

When I lived in Brazil for almost a year, brazilians struck me as a very hands-on populace.

Now that X is banned in their country, I feel like many tech-savvy Brazilians will make it to #nostr

Bon dia cara🥳

Boa noite Brasileiros 🇧🇷

O governo não tem como proibir o nostr.

People I orange pilled in real life.

1. Old boss who was already rich - 5btc (still has it)

2. Ex business partner - 10btc (lost it trading, does forex now)

3. Friend from college - 2btc (sold at 20k to help with his dads medical bills)

4. Friend from high school - 4btc (lost it trading, later tried to hit on my wife)

5. Friend from high school - 7btc (spent it on partying)

6. Wife’s friend’s husband - 3btc (sold it all and bought ethereum)

7. Cousin in law - 1.2btc (sold half at 40k to pay debts)

8. Father - 2btc (died 18 months later)

9. Friend from college 2btc - (still has it, planning to sell at a million)

10. Wife’s coworker - 10btc (sold at 4k, later got into bcash)

"progressive" bitcoiner lol wtf is wrong with you?

will he be aided by Talmud-worshipping Christians in this fucking fantasy?

58k Gang undefeated?

This reminder was very needed lol 😂

Program or be programmed.

Why do lesbians only shop at sports authority?