Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like
The industry hired actors dressed in old-fashioned clothing to illegally cross streets, making the behavior seem outdated
missedhistory.com/…/lobbying-trick-blamed-pedestr…
“Jay” had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road
jaywalker was pre-dated by jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws by driving on the wrong side of the road
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Maybe try to stay on topic?
So jay-walker seems appropriate, does it not?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s extremely on topic for the thread you responded to.
Google has a concerted effort to make “sideloading” bad, so they can remove it without public backlash
The next comment in the chain mentioned how auto manufacturers did the same thing, villainizing people using public spaces by calling it “jaywalking” until it became illegal to walk on public roads
That was done to take public spaces away from pedestrians and give it to cars
This is being done to take software outside of Google Play away and give the only profit to google
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The topic was how coining the term “jaywalking” “blames pedestrians”.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Which is why I linked two articles discussing the history of the term “jay” and how and why it was used to essentially mean “a stupid person”
ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I see your confusion. You are assessing it fro the rewlity when the project already succeed. You think: people who wonder on the street are to blame if they are hit. How term change it in anyway? Right? Streets are for cars. Obviously.
Buy before the campaing, the streets.actually belonged to the people and cars were exception. You had a shopping carts there, children plaing, cyklist and walkers. Cars were introduced, and the responsibility was on the driver to keep attention. When the increasing number of accidents start to generatete bad press and there was a risk that use of car will become highly regulated, they launched the the campaign with a besic premise "car exidents victims are simpletons that have only themselves to blaim".
Your confusions is a testimony to how well it worked.
ideonek@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How is that offtopic? It's direct answer to the question you asked?
https://youtu.be/vxopfjXkArM?si=5u1oaIMrnXsAeTyX
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
How is it not off-topic? It has nothing to do with the suggestion that the word is used to blame pedestrians as a whole.