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Adding links between nodes is not fracturing a network, on the contrary. The strongest network is the full graph, where each node is connected to each other node, and it's also the network where it's hardest to spy communications, because they always occur directly between peers. On the contrary, the weakest network is the star network, which is basically a tree, with a central point (or a few central points) where all communications must pass thru, and where it is easy to collect all of them. With the Internet as it is built (by commercial ISP and country-wide communication monopolies), it is star shaped, and when you send a packet from Marseille to Barcelona, it goes in the best case, thru Paris and Madrid (where French and Spanish spies can copy it), and often it may even go thru Amsterdam and London (where the British, and therefore the NSA can copy it too). This is not good. And privacy apart, it makes for a brittle network, since breaking a couple of main trunks (eg. a link between Paris and London and a link between Paris and Madrid), would prevent anybody from Marseille to communicate with Barcelona. At all levels, increasing the meshing of the Internet is a good thing: add direct links with your neighbors, have your city establish direct links with neighboring cities, and of course, have your country establish direct links with neighboring countries, instead of going thru a central point in a potentially or manifestly hostile country (even if their private companies pledged to do no evil, they're still under the jug of the evil country). |