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.