Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Mon, 15 Jun 2020 20:35:46 +0200, Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: Re: blacklist -> blocklist in current > > > > Whitelist/blacklist is a regular term in computing. I have never seen > > 'blocklisting' before. > > Popularity != fairness; and so on....
American English != International English as used by computer scientists > This article from 2018 might help point out the inherent issues with the > choice of certain terms: > > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/ This is a commentary on one particular trend in a niche field (namely, literature surrounding predatory publishing). I don't see how it's related to general use of the terms whitelist and blacklist. > On the other hand there are deliberate biases in choice of certain terms > since they are indeed intended to indicate positive and negative > opposites, however the more "neutral" one can be in choosing such terms, > then the longer those terms might hope to hold out as inoffensive to as > many people as possible. What does "white" indicate in the White House? https://time.com/4423691/michelle-obama-dnc-speech-history/ -- Alex
