> First, I appreciate the slippery slope, but at this point it’s behind a Stanford login, and is really only addressed to Stanford IT. Then again it says it’s i

> First, I appreciate the slippery slope, but at this point it’s behind a Stanford login, and is really only addressed to Stanford IT. Then again it says it’s in line with peer institutions so perhaps the slope has already slipped. This isn't a hypothetical, these kinds of lists are already being applied in industry. Google even tried to apply such a list to a user-facing product earlier this year, to highlight 'inappropriate' words in Google Docs, but the feature was retracted [0]. It's only a matter of time before some well-meaning do-gooder takes a look at an even broader list like this and decides it needs to be applied to their company's code and documentation, or to their product. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31123323