# Centralized platforms are being weaponized; dweb is disaster recovery

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-10
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Networks (And How Handshake Works Together) (SkyInclude)
- **Watch at:** 00:20:32 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhwTHcOwNwg&t=1232s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-06-10-centralized-platforms-are-being-weaponized-dweb-is-k3fj/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Centralized platforms are being weaponized; dweb is disaster recovery," Akash Networks (And How Handshake Works Together) (SkyInclude), 10 Jun 2021, 00:20:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhwTHcOwNwg&t=1232s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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].