It's not really fair to compare selling tooling to a large agency that does a lot of different things with directly writing software that does something evil.

I made no such comparison.

whats stopping torture workstations from being managed with Kubernetes and Chef?

you could use any modern orchestration tools to replace humans running torture machinery. code only serves to automate human behavior not create new behavior that isn't just amplifications of humanities worst desires.

Arguable but irrelevant. I'm arguing against your absurd universal and inhuman suggestion (nay, command!) to keep politics out of the discussion. On the particular topic at hand I think I'm somewhat in agreement with your conclusion (though I'd need to reflect more to be sure).