Pretty sure there are like 10 people in Mississippi that use Nostr so this is a moot point. But it's not so simple. Let's pretend [insert name of big Nostr client] is found to be facilitating this kind of access at scale for children in Mississippi then the owners that client's legal entity (lets say it's in Europe somewhere) could be issued active arrest warrants for a felony, and this would likely be flagged by US federal authorities and could result in these individuals being denied entry into the US. And people tend to like being able to visit the US. Also Google and Apple would also remove the app from their stores in response to the felony charges. And if this happened then all other large Nostr clients and Nostr media hosts that are run by people who either enjoy visiting the US from time to time or who actually live in the US would take note and (likely) make some adjustments vis a vis how they connect to relays. And the same sort of thing for the operators of larger relays. The law clearly states that it doesn't matter where in the world you are or what you are operating (relay, client, etc.) if you're not doing your best to prevent access by children in Mississippi you as the operator can be issued an arrest warrant by the State of Mississippi and goodbye worry-free future trips to Disney World. Works like that.

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Until someone doesn't care and puts up relays anyway and people use those. Its already playing out in reverse with the UK going after US companies despite the lack of jurisdiction so we'll see how it plays out. Nostr was hit by that to with if I recall correctly nostr.build or another image host blocking the UK out of fear. And then people can just upload images elsewhere to allow UK citizens to see them. Of course a decentralized platform is not immune entirely, but the magic is that the damage is contained to the effected relay. Which people could put proxy relays up for, aggregated relays, etc. So lets say the default relays in amethyst all comply in the end and some russian rents a bullet proof vps and begins to offer an aggregator relay that combines them. Users add the relay and they are back. That means that Noste as a protocol is resillient. Your identity is not tied to a particular relay which makes it unenforcable, some clients connect over tor making it more unenforcable and its easy to setup proxies making it even more unenforcable. Compare that to a platform that has a corporation behind it and centralized servers, or something like bluesky with to much centralized control and they get you on the central point of failure. Nostr is as good as its going to get (until they find a way to do this even more decentral).