cross-posted from: feddit.nl/post/39230816
How will nostr relays deal with the uk’s Online Safety Act?
Would a uk netizen only be able to interact with onion nostr relays or will nostr sees to exist in the uk without a vpn?
UK vs Nostr relay
Submitted 4 weeks ago by monogram@feddit.nl to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 4 weeks ago
Nostr relays can’t really moderate, as far as I know. They just forward messages. So I guess relays in the UK can be shut down, but then other relays from other countries just take over.
glowie@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Relay operator and implementation dev here… operators could moderate if they wanted, via IP blocklists or anything else such as specific words/phrases filters, etc depending upon which implementation they use. There are some relay implementations that are quite customizable and since they’re FOSS, the code could be forked altered for anything else custom that makes the United Kuckdom happy.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 4 weeks ago
Sure, if I was great at coding I could take a stab at it, but I am not.
What if I am just running a relay outside the UK as a service to support the notr network. If this law requires the small relays/me to moderate, then they/I would just shut down instead and the notr network would be worse off for it.
monogram@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
So basically if you don’t want to collect passports from people;