[corobo]

If we're going to nitpick that far they'd need to start an ISP and lay their own fibre too

Personally I feel if you can quickly pull out of a provider and host elsewhere with maybe just a config change - aye the data is fully owned, close enough.

[6stringmerc]

Can you make them give it back if they nerf / quash your account? That’s true ownership, in my view.

[ForHackernews]

Git is natively distributed. One would hope he has a local copy of the repo.