However the query was: what is the relevance of: '"the cloud" is only someone else's computer' to the seemingly astute observation that '5 companies should not control the internet' inasmuch as, when one of those companies' SW blows up, it creates such havoc across so many platforms?

Relevance?

Do not watch if you have a soul and your heart is easily broken:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbt...

Interesting observation. Let's hope that Democracy doesn't get thrown out with the bath water.