# The centralized cloud could decide to ban decentralization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-15
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 14th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:27 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=867s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-15-the-centralized-cloud-could-decide-to-ban-decentra-2dmt/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The centralized cloud could decide to ban decentralization," Akash Weekly - September 14th 2022 (Akash Network), 15 Sept 2022, 00:14:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=867s

## Quote — verbatim

> Then we have this bigger problem, which is the centralization of the cloud that... can decide one day to ban decentralization, right? And it's \[at\] a very critical juncture right now.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Framing censorship risk to crypto's base layer — the argument for sovereign infrastructure, made days after Hetzner's crypto ban.