Well, yes. The ideal situation would be to decentralize everything. Tor-like over networks could play a role in that. But my main point is that so much is host

Well, yes. The ideal situation would be to decentralize everything. Tor-like over networks could play a role in that. But my main point is that so much is hosted on US-based (or US-owned) "cloud servers". And so much relies on US-based services like Skype, Facebook, Gmail. So that when the they pull the internet switch, for whatever reason, the whole communications infrastructure is messed up. And they can easily spy in information stored on their soil. More and more information and communication is under control by the US. I'm having a hard seeing how we can 'pull out' of this when it becomes necessarily. I don't think we such a reliance on China.