Twitter is dropping decades-old coding terms like "master" and "slave" as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to cause ripple effects through the tech world.
The company's engineering division tweeted out a set of words that it wants "to move away from using in favor of more inclusive language." The list includes replacing "whitelist" with "allowlist," "master/slave" with "leader/follower," and "grandfathered" with "legacy status."
|