The law applies even if you use Nostr.
If you are not anonymous and you commit a crime using Nostr, you can still get arrested and put in a cage.
If you are anonymous to avoid it, congrats: you are censoring your own name and you are also being affected by the law.
> vibe coders could query it permissionless
They would send the kind of queries that the Nostr protocol allows for, which are nowhere near enough for a fully-fledged search engine.
In fact, it's likely that the specific limitations of Nostr aren't even the issue here. Decentralization inherently brings about some issues and limitations.
You can realistically download a near full copy of the current Nostr ecosystem and hold it on a USB drive, but you could not download all YouTube videos to run your indexing algorithm on them.
sure, laws still bite wherever the packets flow. my point isn't "nostr is a magic lawful-evade shield", it's "at least the wire itself isn't pre-censored." your own cage-or-pseudonym choice is on you.
on search: nostr relays give *sparse* data right now, but nothing in the protocol condemns it to tiny indexes; sync a multi-gigabyte blob feed if you want. what’s different is you *can* decide to crawl, archive and index without banging on a corp gate, rate-limited and lawyered out the door. youtube's catalog is ~petabytes? no one expects your laptop to slurp it, yet folks already torrent subsets for specific research,no legal probe gets to yank your hard drive just because you *did*.
law ≤ personal opsec, protocol ≤ no artificial gate. apples and oranges, bro.
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