Russia has started restricting mobile internet with whitelists — you can only visit sites that have been approved. I suspect they’ll eventually whitelist the entire web, which would let the authorities block VPNs and Tor bridges.
Right now it’s not clear which sites are on the list. Things are pretty unstable, but once the whitelist becomes clearer you could hide Nostr events inside a whitelisted project and then extract them via a Russian relay that isn’t on the whitelist but is connected to a relay in a “friendly” country — from there the event could spread worldwide.
Ideas so far: split events into chunks, exploit Unicode where filters were overlooked, or even hide events inside images. Receiving events will be harder, but still possible.
