It doesn’t even have to. Relays can self sensor if there’s a threat. Just look at Phoenix pulling out of the US. 

 *censor 

 *cough* run your own relay *cough* 

 Yes, this should be made as easy as running your own #bitcoin node.

Not everyone is running their own Bitcoin node yet, but maybe it can help each other. Integrate it optional and easy in all Bitcoin nodes like @umbrel did.

The other way around would be nice as well: if there will be a simple plug and play #nostr relay option (just like @umbrel, Start 9 do for Bitcoin) adding an AppStore on that Nostr relay software and make a Bitcoin node an optional plugin of your #nostr relay would be very benificial for both worlds. 

 Is there an OSS relay that allows me to sync events from other relays? 

 Surprised BTCPay server hasn't integrated a nostr relay option with it's docker setup yet. 

 They have… 

 Use: opt-add-nostr-relay
See https://github.com/Kukks/NNostr 

 this is a good point.  

 Most people don’t care about most things but we only need one person to care about something for it to exist on nostr for everyone. If that something is important then someone will care to run a relay for it somewhere. 

 This is a feature of nostr. Relays can do anything and clients can easily switch  

 Although Nostr is designed to be decentralized, if a few relays become more popular or widely used, they can create central points of failure. This could happen due to better performance, reliability, or trustworthiness of certain relays

 If these popular relays are attacked, compromised, or taken offline, it could significantly impact the network's usability, even though the protocol is decentralized.

So Samon's idea makes sense.