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There's an implicit political statement in being able to write a simple one line hello world program and run it, using free software and information. Consider the counterfactual world where to even begin programming you have to pay for certification and training or specialized equipment/software. I know paid compilers, proprietary languages and closed specifications exist, but we can still just save print('hello world') to a file and run it using python which is freely available, or even better we can open devtools in our browser and jump into the console and run console.log('hello world') without even installing anything.
> The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
Irony is dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_counterexample
Please don't make personal attacks on other posters.
If any minimal counterexample exists, then "all software is political" must necessarily be false.
Or your definition of political might be different to the speakers.
Or it could be intended to highlight a way of perceiving the world and thus not be subject to truth claims.
Etc. This list can be extended indefinitely.
Language is not a game of symbol manipulation.
The definition of political is irrelevant. The result is supertrue. "If even one example of software is not political, then 'all software is political' is false" is true under all admissible values of "political." This is simple logic.
All assertoric claims about the world are either true or false. If they are false they should be rejected. If they are true they should be spoken. Treating factual claims about the world as a partisan psychological litmus test is, in my judgment, morally repugnant. There are four lights.