# The centralized cloud is a kill switch

- **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:** 00:12:59 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=779s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-15-the-centralized-cloud-is-a-kill-switch-mfac/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The centralized cloud is a kill switch," Akash Weekly - September 14th 2022 (Akash Network), 15 Sept 2022, 00:12:59. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckp4eQ94ojM&t=779s

## Quote — verbatim

> As we know, crypto right now is on a major assault by censorship as well as outright banning... I'm going to go on talking about why decentralization is important — \[Hetzner\] in the cloud basically is a kill switch.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Previewing his Messari spaces talk on base-layer decentralization, after Hetzner banned crypto workloads (captions garble "Hetzner"); Akash offered free hosting to affected projects.