Technically no, but technically most people who *need* to delete are being harassed by a gang or stalked by an ex or extorted by local popos in a small country w/o the sort of visibility you're talking about.

The need to pull your content out of just popular circulation in those instances can be lifesaving. I've had to do it twice.

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I’m sorry to hear that. Nostr does support delete requests, the argument is that that’s all it is, a request: once you put something out there you have no longer control of who made a copy, took a picture, memorized it, etc.

This debate has already been had on Mastodon and the conclusion tends to be that it usually works well enough to implement it, though it’s not 100%

Haha, I love your display name. Very pertinent to this context 🙌

Yes, but since delete requests are in the very baseline of spec I wouldn't call relays who willfully ignore it "Nostr relays", by definition, any more than if they broke protocol with a different JSON blob.

I guess all we can do is name, shame and avoid them.

Maybe, but nothing would prevent anybody, including the victim here, from using those relays in a nostr client without knowing that fact