You can host a relay over Tor so probably not.

If I understand it correctly, they can only ban the websites/relays or apps that use the Nostr network, but not Nostr itself, because it's a protocol, not a centralised website. So, I believe, if a government really want to ban Nostr, it's like killing a hydra (kill one, spawn two more) because the...

I think it's best to look for other protocols like BitTorrent, which work similarly. Governments and/or the media industry didn't like it and tried to stop it, but people still download torrents. PirateBay.org still exists and is still used despite being blocked in some countries. However, they hav...

Good luck banning Noatr over something like Mestastic.

I don’t see how they could unless they pulled something like what Iran did and shut down their entire internet infrastructure.. short of that I don’t think they can. It’s trivial to set up a relay.

They can prevent normies from accessing it by banning the client apps from the app store and banning the websites associated with it. But as far as I understand it's practically impossible to stop the nostr. It would be whack a mole at best.