# Private deplatforming power is intolerable

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-08-11
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Unstoppable Cloud and Building a Decentralized Web with Greg Osuri (The Index Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:24 — https://www.podpage.com/the-index-podcast/blog/unstoppable-cloud-and-building-a/
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-08-11-private-deplatforming-power-is-intolerable-uglx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Private deplatforming power is intolerable," Unstoppable Cloud and Building a Decentralized Web with Greg Osuri (The Index Podcast), 11 Aug 2021, 00:09:24. https://www.podpage.com/the-index-podcast/blog/unstoppable-cloud-and-building-a/

## Quote — verbatim

> The fact that there are platforms that can silence you that are not government-controlled, but private-controlled... considering that these Amazons and Googles and Microsoft can shut you down if they don't like you... That much power in few is not something that we can sleep with.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Describing his second user cohort — anti-deplatforming deployments; he pairs it with the full decentralized stack (Handshake DNS + Akash + Sia Skynet) at [00:10:09].