Re: About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace.
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Mon, 15 Jun 2020 16:48:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: About the use of the terms master/slave and blacklist, proposal to replace. | ||
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Hi!
> The moment we change blacklist to blocklist, we are essentially
> agreeing to the fact that we should censor words because they contain
> a color in its name, something that is totally unrelated to any human
> race. Are we also gonna change the internal values of the Garbage
> Collector for PHP to not use different color markings or what about
> the IMG_BLACKMAN filter, are we gonna rename that even though it is
> named so after the Blackman-Turkey transformation? Of course we should
> not. We cannot go around and censor words that have no correlation to
> the current political events occurring world wide. This here is just
> an example of changing things for the sake of changing.
Very well said. Thank you.
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Stas Malyshev
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