Centralized platforms are being weaponized; dweb is disaster recovery
Akash Networks (And How Handshake Works Together) (SkyInclude)
“Even the lower-level services such as Amazon Web Services deplatforming Parler… the point is these companies have the power, and that very weakness is being weaponized by state actors… in a case like that you want to have a disaster recovery platform that has much lower chances of failure… if you look at decentralized web, I think it is a lot more crucial than we originally thought, and 2020 proved that to be the case.” — 00:20:32
Context: Prompted by the Fastly outage that morning and deplatforming discussion; he argues protocol changes get more scrutiny so “system-wide failures don’t happen that very often in decentralized networks” [00:19:50].