"The text starts with a question... "does every node need a direct Internet connection?"" I do not see the word "direct" in any part of the rant. Am I missing

"The text starts with a question... "does every node need a direct Internet connection?"" I do not see the word "direct" in any part of the rant. Am I missing something? Are you sure that is what he meant? The text reads "do these computers really need to be on the Internet?" Indeed an internetwork like any other network should be symmetric but I am not sure adpoting IPv6 is the only way to achieve that. Nor that adoption of IPv6 would be used for that purpose. Instead I see asymmetric, data collection motivated ideas like "Internet of Things" being put forth as "the way of the future". Such ill advised ideas would more likley be the justification for using IPv6. Do all these "things" (computers) need to be on the Internet?