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Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list. A blacklist is synonymous with a list of banned persons or organizations, and is the opposite of a whitelist.

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  • Origins of the term
  • History
  • Employment
  • Hollywood blacklist
  • Spanish Civil War and communists blacklisted
  • World Wars I and II
  • Medical context
  • 2004 Venezuelan recall referendum
  • Zionism
  • Computing
  • Terminology concerns
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Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority compiling a blacklist of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as being deemed unacceptable to those making the list; if people are on a blacklist, then they are considered to have done something wrong, or they are considered to be untrustworthy. As a verb, blacklist can mean to put an individual or entity on such a list. A blacklist is synonymous with a list of banned persons or organizations, and is the opposite of a whitelist.

== Origins of the term == The English dramatist Philip Massinger used the phrase "black list" in his 1639 tragedy The Unnatural Combat.

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