[umbrellaguy]

>I can go out and lease a virtual machine out there in the cloud and run it myself and not depend on a third party to control my email.

Emphasis here?

[harry8]

Yeah.

Counter-argument moving vms to different providers, ips etc is a lot more straightforward so maybe they don't "control" your mail..?"

And a third way of looking at is every mail has two endpoints. You don't control the server of who sent it to you or who you send it to. Google does. So they still control your mail..?