If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.

Piracy isn’t merely a virtue, but a moral imperative, an obligation to uphold civic freedom.

It is immoral not to pirate. It is everyone’s duty to do their part in normalizing and encouraging piracy.

Pirate... what? A phone? Android? Banking apps?

The problem here isn't the money, it's the lack of privacy and control.

The best analog I can think of to piracy in this situation would be rooting the phone/installing GrapheneOS. And, yeah, that's definitely something people should do if they want that control, but I really hope people don't put it in the same category as piracy...

Pirating, I mean actual pirating, is absolutely stealing,

But that weak ass crime, that we like to call pirating in order to appear cool, No, that is not theft at all.