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Re:Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended by edj on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:30PM (#7220194)
That is like saying TCP/I has a leftwing bias.

I agree that would certainly be nonsense.

But any technology project most definitely can implement the ideological beliefs of its creators, if it's designed to do so and succeeds in achieving that design objective.

For example, the World Wide Web was developed to facilitate sharing, exchange and collaboration.[1]. You might say Tim Berners-Lee did have certain belief system and that he did implement those in his design.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_Wide_Web#...

Re:Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended by msutherl on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @04:10PM (#7220477)
Here's a whole book about how politics (ideology) is written into code: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262572338?tag=morgasuthe-20. See also actor-network theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory