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The article's point is that to get information from Device A to Device B across the internet is never a straight link from Device A to Device B, there are always middlemen whose purpose it is just to forward the data along. There's always something between the end nodes.

Yes, and that's simply and demonstrably false. There are not always middlemen, as I have already explained.

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