# Cloud is the fabric of society and must be publicly governed

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-05-12
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:00 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=840s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-05-12-cloud-is-the-fabric-of-society-and-must-be-publicl-d2nr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud is the fabric of society and must be publicly governed," AI SUPERCLOUD with Greg Osuri of Akash Network (The Interop), 12 May 2023, 00:14:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAuW6cUWkR8&t=840s

## Quote — verbatim

> If you consider cloud to be the fabric that holds a society, we need this fabric to be open and we need this fabric to be governed in the public and resources allocated in the public, rather than a single corporation doing it in a completely opaque manner.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing his three-part argument (cloud margins, open-source stifling, antitrust/censorship) for why Akash needs to exist.