Linux Foundation's New Banned Words: Hung, Pow-Wow, & Sanity Check

If using Firefox one can unban words and other forms of compelled speech using the addon FoxReplace [1] to put back words that people try to usurp. For example, if anyone here says "Burp", I instead see "Fart" because I can. People will not know until someone using the addon quotes them. There is an option for case sensitivity, match only on a URL, etc...

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxreplace/

Dear words banners, please consider how you would feel when your political opponents propose a different list of words to ban, like microaggression, cisgender, deadnaming, intersectionality. This blade has two edges, don't run with it.

I wonder why they didn't include "privilege". Shouldn't it be "root rights" instead of "root privilege"?

Kinda stupid if you ask me. Bring me back master\slave, white\black, and let's not be stupid: context matters.

Note that Lunduke is a right wing nut job that has been crusading against "DEI" and whatnot for a few years. At the same time, he's not wrong that this particular rule feels particularly misdirected. There is a lot of entrenched vocabulary that has its own meaning and makes sense in context. Sure someone not in tech might take killing children the wrong way but the jargon was not intended for them in the first place.

I assume parent/child is ok? To me, values is not a synonym for culture. One is ethical while one is social and the latter can have negative elements.

Grandfather/father/son has a generational aspect, so I would think grandparent/parent/child (or current) would work. Think tape backups. Alternate terms that express this generational aspect would have to be developed.

For hung I would think frozen is good as it’s in an unexpected state. I guess programs can’t crash anymore? Is it ok to say things get corrupted (ethics again)?

Synonyms have to share meaning to not increase the difficulty of development. It’s hard enough without misunderstanding situations.

I think that if people want to write some new program or documentation or whatever else and prefer to use different words, that is OK as long as it is still clear (rather than becoming confusing due to it; but sometimes the difference words can result in less confusion instead, which is good), but this does not necessarily justify changing existing things (there are reasons to do it but it is not always the good idea to do), and should not ban words due to this.

Whoever wrote this is overreacting more than any specific choice of word might be