# Fully decentralized stack is the only way out of the censorship regime

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-08
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 7th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:45 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row18GzCS5w&t=945s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-08-fully-decentralized-stack-is-the-only-way-out-of-t-gxui/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Fully decentralized stack is the only way out of the censorship regime," Akash Weekly - September 7th 2022 (Akash Network), 8 Sept 2022, 00:15:45. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row18GzCS5w&t=945s

## Quote — verbatim

> You can't go censor a smart contract, you can't stop a smart contract. So the only way out of this, like, heavy censorship regime is a fully decentralized stack, and we're all working very hard to get there.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Framed against Hetzner's crypto ban and 2022 censorship concerns; why Kava's Prop 97 incentivizing Akash-hosted DeFi matters.