What prevents the same authorities to as the same to big relays? (Apart from current lack of knowledge)
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In most cases you could probably just tell them to screw off - unless you're registering a local business entity and accepting payments or selling ads, the worst they could do is try to add your domain to the great firewall of Britain since they have no jurisdiction over a server in another country (AFAIK).
One of my sites just says "GDPR compliance: lol" (even though I'm technically in compliance with the GDPR since I don't collect any data). As long as you and your servers aren't in reach of the UK or whatever other region is trying to enforce laws I think it's safe from any needs for compliance.
Exactly nothing.
The idea of Nostr as a solution for governmental censorship or other forms of authoritarianism is just flawed. Nostr *does* address corporate censorship. That's a more than worthwhile goal on its own: some censors we really should worry about aren't governmental, they are massive companies.
Nostr relays behind darknets might address governmental authoritarianism, but so would be pretty much anything else behind darnkets, and only as long as the government isn't trying too hard to arrest people (you can have all of the theoretical shit you want, but people live in the real world, when they make mistakes and get arrested).
Fighting for democracy and fundamental human rights is a continuous effort and while part of the solution is in software technology (Nostr being a prime example of that), most of it is not. Politics is hard.