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Mike Royko

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Mike Royko

Computers

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Mike Royko is saying that instead of seeing the Internet as a useful place to get information, he thinks of it as a chaotic space full of crazy and noisy people. He uses the word "asylum" to suggest it feels like a mental institution where irrational or strange behavior is common.

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