Today’s Internet cliché award goes to:

by | Monday, November 03, 2008

Sara Black, a professor of health studies at St. Joseph’s University for the following insightful quote:

“The Internet can be a great tool, like any tool, it can also be misused.”

Check it out on CNN.com in a story titled “#@*!!! Anonymous anger rampant on Internet

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