Free Speech: The Colbert Report

• 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. Article 19 (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Free speech is one of the basic human rights of an individual. We as a individual have a right to express our self without been having fear of been judged for it. Free speech is one of fundamental rights of the democratic human society modern society and the most coveted. In 1948 United Nations Declaration of Rights was adopted which states in Article 19 "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinion without

It is a nonprofit, international journalistic organization. Its founder is Julian Assange, a resident of Melbourne. He was a computer hacker by trade. His motto was Government or classified data or information should be made available to the general public. According to Julian Assange, "Any reforms that is large scale must be based on information. What else can spread like an virus and it can achieve large scale information" (Gibney, 2013). Because it's the common people who elects the Government the common mass should have the right to know what going on behind the door. In an interview as part of the American television programme The Colbert Report, Assange discussed the limit to the freedom of speech, saying, "[it is] not an ultimate freedom, however free speech is what regulates government and regulates law. He teamed up with media namely The Guardian and The New York Times and together they divulged seventy thousands classified files to the general public. Two of his biggest release were the Iraq war logs and Afghanistan files. (Leigh, 2011) These were the greatest leak in modern history and showed the ugly face of politics. He also unmasked the Guantanamo files, Kenyan Government in 2007. Widespread protests and unrest took place in these periods and the Government officials came out in there press conference that he has committed crime in leaking information. He has been in house arrest for the last two years in Ecuadorian Embassy

In fact The High Court has held this right on grounds of political discussion. The Arts Law advocated this Right as one of the essential rights to foster cultural and artistic development among the communities as the previous law does not extend to non political topics. But there are limitation which has been brought forward by the Arts Law Center Of Australia and the laws to defend them. These laws defends an individual when the Freedom of Expression would used wrongly. Defamation Law defends people reputation when somebody's communication results in harm to their reputation. It carries serious penalties including huge monetary compensation. This law draws a clear line between Freedom of Expression and the Right of an individual to enjoy a reputation from indefensible attack. Anti-Vilification law defends an individual from being harms by images or actions on the basis of race, sex, background, disability or HIV/AIDS. A lot of the aspects of this law extends from the Defamation Law and stops discourages people act in a way to hurt other people's feelings. Classification and Censorship laws are also in place to authorize the works of domestic as well as international artists depending on certain parameters. These are medium of work, its content and the way it will be used and the