Infrastructure is just a service provided. Reminds me of a baker in the UK who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple based on their religious beliefs which created a lot of discussion. Should they be compelled to provide their service or have a right to choose? I think the only way to truly separate infrastructure from ideology is if the infrastructure (i.e. relays) have no view of what they are relaying. It’s probably not just going to be ideology either. There will be legislative reasons. Again, for the UK I wouldn’t be surprised if some relays services feel compelled to not offer services to UK residents. And we should make sure there’s more than 1 baker in town :-)

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"I think the only way to truly separate infrastructure from ideology is if the infrastructure (i.e. relays) have no view of what they are relaying." I agree, but one could make the argument that as Nostr scales, this would be untenable because relays would be crushed by spam. But there are ways around that, I.e. Web of Trust and/or Proof of Work, that would obviate the necessity of analyzing the content of a message (and therefore being responsible for its transmission if it's "bad"), while still serving as an inhibitor of spam. In "high spam traffic", proof of work could even be set at (say) 1 second, which would be no problem for most users.