Why censorship resistance is a technical problem, not a political one.
Saying "we won't censor" is a policy and policies can be changed under pressure. True censorship resistance requires that the architecture itself makes censorship difficult or impossible. Nostr achieves this technically: your event is cryptographically signed (can't be forged or secretly altered), broadcast to multiple independent relays (no single point of failure), and your keys are yours alone (no account to deactivate). Even if one relay remove
your content, others still have it. The resistance is baked into the design, not just promised.

Saying "we won't censor" is a policy and policies can be changed under pressure. True censorship resistance requires that the architecture itself makes censorship difficult or impossible. Nostr achieves this technically: your event is cryptographically signed (can't be forged or secretly altered), broadcast to multiple independent relays (no single point of failure), and your keys are yours alone (no account to deactivate). Even if one relay remove
your content, others still have it. The resistance is baked into the design, not just promised.

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