"Google Restricts Android Application Installation–What It Means for User Autonomy and Freedom"
The idea that you're not allowed to install any application without it coming directly from $megacorp is the new wierd thing. The idea of installing applications yourself on your computer is well established and normal.
"Sideloading" is a dangerous word that implicitly gives up freedoms. It should not be used.
reminds me of talking with libertarians (I forget whether big L or little l but whatever), before you can even engage then in discussions you have to learn their terminology, "taxes" is not a word, its "theft". being a regular citizen is "enslavement."
One mental strategy I like when debating an issue is to see how my argument looks using normal terms. Heck if I have spare time and am bored, I'll even reframe arguments in my debate partners terms if they're one of "those" but thats just something done for amusement, like trying to rewrite linux in brainfuck, in theory its possible but its not how you normally want to do things.