Mines been resold so many times I don’t know who I am anymore.

I don't really get these takes to be honest. UK law is UK law, as a company or an individual doing UK stuff you have to follow it, including companies and individuals doing UK stuff on nostr. This idea that Nostr somehow offers worldwide diplomatic immunity to all associated clients, dev and users is goofballs.

The application of law in this case lies upon Clients and Users, I’m not saying that Clients, Users and Relays are immune, but that Nostr as an open specification will never have these subjective, flawed systems imposed upon it, and every human here would NOT use a Nostr client that requires you to scan your face to use it… at that point, just use Facebook, at least it’s a closed database.

"closed" lol. until yet again another flaw in their security leads to a trove of user data landing on the dark web

Indeed, it is all “security by obfuscation”, in the end.

I'm not sure though what Nostr is without clients, devs, relays and users (the components subject to the law). At that point Nostr is just words in a readme, and the question of freedom versus restriction is kind of irrelevant no?

That’s essentially the point, to be honest, the “idea” is already “alive”; as long as a single Client and Relay does not restrict, then that relay / those relays will continue to be used by the folks simply trying to live without scanning their face for every single online interaction.

Noooo, I have Social Media Rights here!!!!! 🤦

Right but if that single client or relay is serving users in a country where by law users have to scan their face then both those users and that client or relay are breaking the law. If the owner of that client or relay is abroad but later sets foot in that country they can be charged, or charged in abstentia, etc. I mean let's just call it what it is. It's breaking the law. How you feel about breaking the law is another matter, but let's not pretend that just because of Nostr then somehow we don't have to use the words breaking the law.

Agreed, it is, but so be it. Born to thrive, not to slave. 🙏