True; but let's imagine everyone self-hosted. Perfectly decentralized. As I edited another comment to reflect, imagine if you took out just three companies. Le

True; but let's imagine everyone self-hosted. Perfectly decentralized. As I edited another comment to reflect, imagine if you took out just three companies. Level 3 Communications / Lumen; AT&T; Verizon Enterprise. With those three, you've knocked 2.35 million km, or 1.46 million miles, of fiber optic offline. That's over half of the US backbone in those three companies. Comcast "only" has 0.15 million miles for the sake of comparison. The internet would crash and burn immediately to speeds not seen since the dial-up era. There's nothing we can do about that. Cloudflare and AWS centralizing everything is actually, statistically, less risky than backbone attacks. If you succeeded in knocking down all of the big seven at once; you've got about 80-90% of the backbone offline plus all of the online cloud providers with direct connections to them; at which point the internet would cease to function in any practical sense.