>Presumably because they don't want people reading their developer documentation to get distracted from what the documentation is trying to communicate?

If that's the goal, they should use estabilished terms of art.

>It is quite common to have company policy for communication. That does not mean you want to change how everybody else in the world communicates.

Yeah, so I don't get why what I proposed is any different from that.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but I thought you meant they should get other people to stop using black and white for humans in other contexts. I presumed Google themselves does not talk about black or white people in their developer documentation.

Right, so my solution wouldn’t even require them to change any documentation. Double win.