Claim: The County of Los Angeles has requested that equipment vendors avoid using the industry term "Master/Slave" in product descriptions and labeling. Status: True. Origins: Social changes of our ...

The computer term "master/slave," which was banned as racially offensive by a Los Angeles County purchasing department, was named the most politically incorrect term of the year. Among other terms on ...

Google has instructed employees to stop using politically incorrect terminology, and to edit existing code in order to remove offensive language. The master/slave example is specifically cited in the ...

A few years ago, Karla Monterroso was at an airport when she noticed a glitch in a computer monitor that would normally display flight information. Instead, the screen showed the text “Master/Slave,” ...