Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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How is article valid here in this or whatever forum on the internet, the article that states the freedom of speech?

Actually it is not at all.

Article 19 grants you the right to voice your opinion through your channels. So you can create your own media to voice your opinion and no one should keep you from doing that.

Quote from Wikipedia:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

You cannot claim Article 19 if you send a letter to a newspaper and want to get it published (hell they often choose those they like).

You cannot claim Article 19 if you organize and take part in a public demonstration that the mass media will actually do reports on it but you could freely voice your opinion with your demonstration.

For everything that is privately owned you cannot claim Article 19 (or would you allow people to claim Article 19 if they want to come to your home and just shouting their opinion in your living room at any given time of the day?).

I really do not understand why people "on the internet" so often claim that Article in any form of moderation because if it would be valid it would violate Article 17.

Generally i think that of course Article 19 is a very valuable part of the Human Rights and should not be taken lightly. However trying to apply it in the wrong places does exactly that in my opinion.

(Disclaimer: This is a general thread about the Article 19, please leave it at this).