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It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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[-] sudneo@lemm.ee 16 points 4 months ago

Totally discussing useless stuff here, but green and red to me give the feeling of temporary actions (and possibly alternating). Intuitively sounds more like slowing and speeding than it does permanently blocking or allowing something.

Black and white have the polar opposite meaning. At this point allowlist and blocklist might be a simpler solution to the "problem".

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Main one to me is you can't have a grey area in between without black and white to compare it against.

[-] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 1 points 4 months ago

Probably because those are traditionally traffic light colors, used to indicate success or failure.

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