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@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ Unfortunately, both solutions as a foundation actually shake the
 structure of the system apart after long enough.
 
 This isn't to say we aren't sympathetic to the goals of block-lists
-and deny-lists, but that they don't work long term.
+and allow-lists, but that they don't work long term.
 In order to understand this, we need to look at the problem from
 several sides.