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Admins/Mods are completely at liberty to erase this post. My thoughts were that perhaps members may be interested in the way we are expected to address people and issues.
Below are comments taken directly from today's edition of The Daily Telegraph (one of the UK's leading newspapers) and are in the public sector where anyone can read them.
I am not expressing a personal view on these matters; merely passing on what is very much in the public purview.
The phrase “black market” should not be used because it is racist, banking leaders have said.
The guidance suggests replacing “black market” with “illegal market” to avoid racial bias or discrimination.
The cyber security term “black hat”, which refers to an unauthorised user on a network, should be replaced with “unethical”, it adds, while “sanity check” should be replaced by “functional test” in order not to “infer a level of disability”.
The phrase “man in the middle” which indicates a cyber attack, was also thought to be gender biased, to be replaced with “network interception”, says the guidance.
A cyber attack check to see how secure a network is, known as “penetration testing”, should now be called “ethical hacking” or “blue testing”.
It comes after a charity advised doctors to refer to a vagina as a “bonus hole” to avoid upsetting transgender men.
Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust said “bonus hole” and “front hole” were acceptable alternatives to vagina, a word that could “cause someone to feel hurt or distressed”.
Oxfam also published an inclusive language guide which cautioned staff against using the terms “mother” and “father”.
And in April a judge in North Wales, Mr Justice Eyre, asked jurors whether addressing them as “ladies and gentlemen” was acceptable for fear it may have been too “traditional, offensive or exclusive”.
Ian
Below are comments taken directly from today's edition of The Daily Telegraph (one of the UK's leading newspapers) and are in the public sector where anyone can read them.
I am not expressing a personal view on these matters; merely passing on what is very much in the public purview.
The phrase “black market” should not be used because it is racist, banking leaders have said.
The guidance suggests replacing “black market” with “illegal market” to avoid racial bias or discrimination.
The cyber security term “black hat”, which refers to an unauthorised user on a network, should be replaced with “unethical”, it adds, while “sanity check” should be replaced by “functional test” in order not to “infer a level of disability”.
The phrase “man in the middle” which indicates a cyber attack, was also thought to be gender biased, to be replaced with “network interception”, says the guidance.
A cyber attack check to see how secure a network is, known as “penetration testing”, should now be called “ethical hacking” or “blue testing”.
It comes after a charity advised doctors to refer to a vagina as a “bonus hole” to avoid upsetting transgender men.
Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust said “bonus hole” and “front hole” were acceptable alternatives to vagina, a word that could “cause someone to feel hurt or distressed”.
Oxfam also published an inclusive language guide which cautioned staff against using the terms “mother” and “father”.
And in April a judge in North Wales, Mr Justice Eyre, asked jurors whether addressing them as “ladies and gentlemen” was acceptable for fear it may have been too “traditional, offensive or exclusive”.
Ian