Did you really intend to hotlink a hotlinking notice?
Umm. Nope. Did not intend to do that. Using my own server now.
And no miners do not control my transactions, because all that they can do is refuse to process them, and there are thousands of others who will not.
If the difficulty increase was one person's doing, if the 1Th/s that has recently been added to the network came from a single entity, then yet, they do control the network. They essentially decide whose blocks are valid and whose aren't.