I am already verified.
It's how I got my blue tick. I have my face and name in my profile.
X has just noticed that I need to verify that I am over 16.
This is just the beginning of a very, very bad period in Australia's history.
I am now certain they are coming for our speech.
They want a singular narrative, with photo ops on the lawn of Kirribilli house.
The government and the opposition on a unity ticket.
A one way ticket to authoritarian hell.
No Albanese, no Anika Wells, and definitely not Julie Inman Grant.
I don't like you, I don't trust you, and I refuse to follow you.
Australia is a democracy, and I have an implied right to free political speech.
This is what I choose to say:
Anthony Albanese, Anika Wells and Julie Inman Grant, I am not a child. I pay too much tax, and you all waste it.
I do not consent to being governed by you.
We did not vote for this, and it was never on the ballot, because you rammed it through parliament at the end of last year.
There is no mandate for this and as such you have just lost your moral authority to govern us.
Call an election.
I just want Australia back.