"Permission models can go fast, but open and permissionless models can go far" — even the DoD runs Akash
BASS 2024 10 Ben Fielding, Greg Osuri, Guy Wuollet, Steven Willinger (Stanford Blockchain Club)
“Moderation is done by the providers and not by the protocol, and the protocol should remain free of moderation, free of censorship, and permissionless — that’s the only way to go far. Permission models and closed models can go fast in the near term, but open and permissionless models can go far, in places where traditional software cannot. One of the examples I give: Akash is being used by DoD, Department of Defense, because of its open source nature and permissionless nature — of course a fork of it, not the actual network… and we have zero salespeople.” — 00:14:38
Context: On permissionless networks and export controls; he argues provider-level self-moderation handles abuse (nobody will host truly abhorrent content) while politically contested content stays servable.