# Deplatforming is being weaponized by state actors

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-08-04
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:03 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=1323s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-04-deplatforming-is-being-weaponized-by-state-actors-3sly/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Deplatforming is being weaponized by state actors," Akash Network Is The Airbnb Of Cloud (TFiR), 4 Aug 2021, 00:22:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=1323s

## Quote — verbatim

> What's crazy is deplatforming is getting weaponized by state actors against legitimate companies... so people are using Akash as a disaster recovery mechanism.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Second user cohort after the Parler takedown era — "the fact that there is a platform that has so much power is disturbing" ([00:21:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQUKoM_1ME&t=1282s)) — with Akash as the censorship-resistant backup to primary AWS deployments.