You're right – close-minded is immediately blacklisting. Thoughtful is:
"What did you do at $PLACE_CURRENT_ADMIN_LIKES, and what, in retrospect, did it actually accomplish that made people and society freer, more empowered, and their lives richer?"
At which point you can say "I made an interface to let anyone with access scrape ALPRs around the nation, and I genuinely didn't think about what people would do with it", and then that speaks for itself.
I know I wouldn't want to work for or with someone or some company so close-minded as to use this sort of thing as some sort of candidate filter.