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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I have a friend that works at Salesforce, he told me that they made him change the name of some classes that used the term Blacklist because of inclusivity

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My previous workplace did the same thing around 2020 with the words whitelist and blacklist and some other words.

It was around the same time when there was news about GitHub moving from master to main/mainline as the default Git branch.

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