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 Nostr ain't uncensored, yet.

I like Cyph3rp9nk, he's got great content.  So this isn't an "attack", but a friendly philosophical debate over if Session messenger's DNS is worthwhile for censorship.  He thinks it's not, and we only need Nostr & SimpleX w/ government domains.  So to prove my point, I did a DNS lookup on Cyph3rp9nk's Nostr relays to find a bunch of pro-US government entities that can easily wipe his content off 1 phone call.

Cloudflare, Inc.
wss://relay.damus.io

Cloudflare, Inc.
wss://relay.primal.net

Amazon.com, Inc.
wss://nostr.mutinywallet.com/

Amazon.com, Inc.
wss://relay.current.fyi

Hetzner Online GmbH
wss://nos.lol

Hetzner Online GmbH
wss://relay.nostr.band

Hetzner Online GmbH
wss://relay.nostr.bg

The Constant Company, LLC (USA Vultr forced KYC)
wss://purplepag.es

MULTACOM CORPORATION (USA California Democrat HQ)
wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social

Now mine are not much better, so what's the answer?  Mike Dilger of Gossip was telling me he'd eventuality integrate Tor relay support.  But until that's widely adopted, Session is the king.