Yes you could put it that way. A sorting algorithm has very little impact on politics whereas say fingerprinting or encryption can be leveraged for political pu

Yes you could put it that way. A sorting algorithm has very little impact on politics whereas say fingerprinting or encryption can be leveraged for political purposes. DRM (and it’s hipster cousin “remote attestation”) stands out as being exceptionally political because it relies on the hardware to be controlled by a different actor than its owner and operator. Similar to “tamper-proof” physical objects, from the old days.