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Change blacklist and whitelist to DenyList and AllowList

Inspired by the great presentation https://twitter.com/carolstran/status/1035547140016287746?s=12

From https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13604#issuecomment-419884422 (archived) "While the etymology of the words isn't steeped in racial undertones or history like other problematic tech word choices, there is no harm in changing them to synonyms that as just as understandable and avoid the question entirely"

Possible options by @edjdev :

  • Allowlist

  • Throughlist

  • Goodlist

  • Includelist

  • Yeslist

  • Denylist

  • Blocklist

  • Poisonlist

  • Badlist

  • Excludelist

  • Nolist

Proposal

We have 2 options. We are going with option 1.

  1. Allowlist and Denylist
  2. Safelist and Blocklist
Edited by Mike Lewis