An alternative term for a wh*telist

Why is the asterisk (*) symbol often used in the middle of words these days? I didn't get the memo when this trend started.

The asterisk is often used to mince profane words, and I guess wh* te and bl* ck are profane now... Or at least that's what the parent comment is implying. (Personally I disagree.)

People have been spelling brainfuck as brainf*ck, or similar, since at least 2001 (the earliest date my lazy-a$s search yielded)

It's just a censor.

Whitelist. You can spell it out here.

The opposite of a block list: a lost of things that are allowed.

A poor replacement for the industry standard term whitelist.

I think allowlist and denylist are better alternatives to whitelist and blacklist. Allow and Deny are more literally what this is about. White and Black are just old metaphors that aren’t clear they are just familiar.

Whitelist and Blacklist don’t really have racists backgrounds but it they are part of a longstanding cultural bias that equates white=good and black=bad. Subverting those biases seems like a good idea.

There are numerous "industry standard" terms including hot/cold, black/white, allow/deny, positive/negative etc.

The generalized concept that white=good,black=bad is something that can easily disappear from all "industry" with more precise terms.

In the case of this topic, allow/deny is a much better set of names.