It's nowhere near that clear cut. http://www.radiohamburg.de/Nachrichten/Deutschland-und-die-Welt/Panorama/2017/Oktober/Es-ist-wieder-soweit-Langenscheidt-kuer

It's nowhere near that clear cut. http://www.radiohamburg.de/Nachrichten/Deutschland-und-die-Welt/Panorama/2017/Oktober/Es-ist-wieder-soweit-Langenscheidt-kuert-das-Jugendwort-2017 http://www.radiohamburg.de/Nachrichten/Deutschland-und-die-W... One of the "unwords" nominated for 2017 is "sozialtot". That's "socially dead" as a synonym for not having a Facebook account. As for Google, when everybody has their email at google I can craft my packets by hand, Google will still slurp them up. But oh, it's all optional, that goes without saying so it has to be said all the damn time. > particularly when $bad_thing is to read opposition news. You don't even know if "and their use is purely optional." refers to even one word more than the headline. If it does, you don't get to pick and chose that conveniently. The article also contains sentences such as > All of them are making decisions about who gets a digital megaphone and who should be unplugged from the web. Where does people doing something to themselves even figure into that? We're still at that part where someone blamed the victim and you're contorting to excuse that as something noble at heart, if lazy and inarticulate.