other than holding up in a court of law, i agree. that is my point. 

that is why i would use keys instead of copying the original. 

There is no difference between the original and a copy in a digital world.

analogue

why wouldn’t the nodes hold a read-key to the original, rather than a copy? That way the owner can at least revoke the read-key AKA tombstone their data on the node. 

thrown

nostr

Damus is a Nostr client with Lightning ⚡️  integration 

moel

It's definitely semantics, but nostr nodes only own a copy which AFAIK is known to be a copy because it's signed by the owner. If you want to say something you're afraid of being associated with you can always use a one-time pubkey, can't you?