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Expand Up @@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Clients MAY choose to inform the user that their request for deletion does not g

Relays MAY validate that a deletion request event only references events that have the same `pubkey` as the deletion request itself, however this is not required since relays may not have knowledge of all referenced events.

### Cascading Deletion of Reposts

When a relay receives a `kind 5` deletion request, it SHOULD also delete any `kind 6` or `kind 16` repost events whose `p` tag matches the deletion request's `pubkey` and whose `e` tag references the deleted event. Relays SHOULD perform this cascading deletion even if they no longer hold the original event being deleted.

This prevents reposts — which may contain a full copy of the original event in their `content` field — from continuing to serve content that the original author has requested to be deleted.

## Deletion Request of a Deletion Request

Publishing a deletion request event against a deletion request has no effect. Clients and relays are not obliged to support "unrequest deletion" functionality.