Not really what he said. He said [paraphrasing] ‘perhaps it would have been better if the internet had never been invented’. Subtle difference ... wishful thinking perhaps.
I can’t youtoob at the office but I’d wager that the mindset isn’t that the internet is “evil”, it is just that the “public” should never have been granted access or permitted to know it existed (which it had for DECADES).
Students in technical fields got their exposure generally by college (I first saw it in 1983).
I have learned -- as have most FReepers, over a number of painful years -- to discern what Democrats really mean when they speak. I have no doubt as to what was in this clown's thoughts.