Do apps like WhatsApp or Facebook inherently have severe political considerations, even though they're primarily apps for communication and connecting people together?
Not all politics & software development are unrelated btw, there have certainly been political movements that would have targeted & tightly controlled software development if it was as big as it is now when that movement happened. Khmer Rouge comes to mind.
There are also explicitly political software development projects: Bitcoin, Tor, arguably GNU, the great firewall, stuxnet, whatever nation state actors are cooking up for mass social media manipulation etc
I strongly disagree.
I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and my politics/philosophy is one of the things that makes F/OSS so very attractive to me.