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 Imagine you're following a friend of yours and you zap his pubkey all the time, and you even write notes saying that he is amazing person and you agree with him in everything -- then suddenly his key is compromised and his metadata is edited to depict a strong Nazism supporter, now you're looking like a nazist yourself.

Does that mean we should have never had the concept of replaceable events and all relays should be storing all metadata events from everybody forever? 
 But that wasn't the case with Trudeau. 
 Here is how I'd respond: 
1. I saw he took a turn and unfollowed/ corrected/ disagreed with him {here}
2. Pound sand 
 It means we may need to have a permanent “compromised” addition to any account, a sort of tamper tape on pubkey where it signifies it’s public domain 
 Isn’t the same when an account gets hacked somewhere else? We'll get over it, no-one really cares after two days have passed. 
 Subject at hand sidelined for a second… I’ll ask - if edits are within the nostr protocol's ability, what are the bad implications of: your pk, your choice to edit or delete any of your events? 
 Storing metadata forever does not sound like the right path.  It should be deleted after some short time.  Time formerly cured most things.  Storing good and bad metadata forever can and will be used against you at a later date. 
 You may have a point technically, perhaps a different scenario can highlight your point better.

We are not responsible if someone we know gets hacked or change their views. Those are not our opinions.

The media will happily portray someone as a bad person via guilt-by-association, but that is true regardless.
 
 Se happens with people's static pictures right now.  Servers can just swap them to say the opposite at any time.  
 I still think about changing a bitcoin badge I made with a dick pick... 
 i just saw zapthread or zaplink something - (then lost it) - which allow other websitesite have zap based discuss thread - whats that please 
 Conceptually, no. At some point the world will wake up to the physical costs of all things digital...

Nostr needs delete. 
 Do wallets rely on event permanence in any way? If not, what is the virtue of forever-events across Nostr? 
 Imagine you're paying a friend of yours using is x-pubkey all the time -- then suddenly his key is compromised by a nazi and now you're looking like a nazist yourself.

Does that mean we should have never had the concept of an immutable ledger that should be storing every transaction from everybody forever? 
 Yes. 
 imagine thinking nazi is a bad thing 
 you fucking piece of shit 
 Imagine you have a friend and hang out with him all ghe time, and everyone knows you're friends because you're always doing cool stuff together -- then suddenly his brain is compromised (by propaganda or something) and he becomes a strong Nazism supporter going so far as to claim that he secretly supported it all along!, now you're looking like a nazist yourself.

Does that mean we should have never had the concept of love and friendship and all people should be forever alone? 
 At least that way no one would get COVID, I was told. 
 Imagine making up some damn nonsense about you. Who do you think is more stupid: those who making up or those who believe 
 Without key rotation won't all accounts be compromised in the end? 
 Someone can deal with you about something (sell a car to you), get your money and delete a conversation after that, scam you. A lot of people does such things in Telegram. Terribly