This is factually inaccurate. The reason why the cost of living is sane in Republican states is because they don't place undue restrictions on housing supply. You might acknowledge that each political party has significant trade-offs with the policies they support, and move to a red state with that in mind.
How hard would it be to remove those bits that ignored non-commercial traffic? You might be a privacy conscious guy, but what is to stop the owner of this code base from removing this if statement? I am sure a company like Infosys would be happy to take on a project like this, and throw some less liberty minded people at the problem.