Twitter Won't Use Racist Terms in Its Software Language

In the United States in the past weeks george floyd Anti-racist protests that started around the world after the death of a citizen named by the police continue. People want to prevent racism not only by organizing anti-racist demonstrations, but also by eliminating any reminders of racism in every aspect of our lives.

One of these areas has recently been computer programming and software. social media giant Twitter, some terms that resemble racist meanings in software language Decided not to use it. In addition to Twitter, many companies have made similar decisions.

Twitter will not use racist terms:

Twitter's software engineering department said in a tweet shared on Thursday:changing to use more inclusive language” presented a list of programming terms he wanted. The list presented included ‘whitelist’, ‘Blacklist’, ‘master’, ‘slaveThere are also terms like '.

The software engineering department that shared the post also included what terms should be used instead of these terms. Accordingly, 'whitelist', 'allow list', the 'master/slave' duo 'leader/followerIt will be replaced with the terms '. Anti-racist movements in the software world are not limited to this alone.

US based JPMorgan bank also announced that it would change the language used in computer programming and some technology policy documents. However, Google's Chromium internet browser and Android In the operating system, software developers use the terms 'blacklist' and 'whitelist'. to avoid he called.

One of the largest software platforms in the world GitHublast month to remove the term 'master' from the programming language. continues to work he explained. Apart from these examples, many companies also supported the removal of terms that resemble racist expressions in the software language.