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Re:Your calendar should be an allowlist, not a blocklist by ywhjaknskkkw on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @12:39PM (#24051715)
A poor replacement for the industry standard term whitelist.
Re:Your calendar should be an allowlist, not a blocklist by Tagbert on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @10:37PM (#24067652)
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.

Re:Your calendar should be an allowlist, not a blocklist by rswail on Friday August 07, 2020 @01:18AM (#24078621)
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.