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# W3C's Vision for the World Wide Web # {#vision-web}

* The Web is for <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#allpeople">all people</a>.
* The Web is designed for the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#noharm">good of humanity</a>.
* The Web must be <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#privacy">secure and respect people's privacy</a>.
* The Web is for <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#allpeople">all humanity</a>.

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Ok, given:

  • "All humanity" is the phrasing that was here originally (prior to recent edits attempting to fix 211), and had the consensus of the AB and the VisionTF at least in the past.
  • No one, anywhere that I can see, not even in 211, was complaining about it.
  • You yourself admitted in Slack that you find rephrasing with "all people" to be less eloquent than the original "all humanity".

... what's your motivation for proposing the change?

(It's not that I have a particular objection to this change, but I'm not seeing the rhetorical benefit.)

* The Web is designed for the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#noharm">good of all people</a>.
* The Web must be <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#privacy">safe to use</a>.

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Can you explain what you think this extra phrase adds or clarifies?

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Taking into consideration especially that we already have the first point stated above.

* There is <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#oneweb">one interoperable world-wide Web</a>.

# Vision for W3C # {#vision-org}
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