On Sunday I had my X account suspended due to violating their authenticity terms and conditions, despite not being a bot account or a spammer.
I’m not mad because these things happen and it’s only the Internet after all. I can lodge an appeal, download the archive of my posts and start all over again. It’s a simple process which I’ve done many times before under different aliases years ago.
On the plus side, I’ve made some great connections by proving my worth through the content I’ve produced in the forms of educational threads about Australian history, politics and the many reasons why the White Australia Policy was so strongly advocated for and valued, as well as my many edits of clips from popular livestreamers with my own style of captions in them.
I hope I have demonstrated why we must not abandon the online world of nationalist activism, because if we can dominate the discussion online and be in every comment section, it will make it easier for us to do so in person as well. Both are important, but the ultimate battle is won when we come to power. Accounts like mine should also continue to push back against multiculturalism and government tyranny by censorship, both online and through imprisonment, and advocate for those who have been unjustly persecuted.
I’d like to also believe I have helped equip my followers with the tools needed to better use X to get our message out more effectively and demonstrated it by getting a completely fresh account monetised in a month and gaining 9.1 million post impressions since May.
But I can’t help but feel like this is more of the same as before Elon Musk bought Twitter. Times were tougher years ago to be a nationalist on Twitter. In fact, many of us gave up on using the website for a few years. Those who were on Twitter between 2016 and 2019 remember the lengths we had to go to, to be part of the conversation; stepping on egg shells by wording things a certain way, using symbols and numbers to avoid spelling complete words and phrases and not directly discussing sensitive topics, just so we didn’t have our accounts automatically suspended over the slightest infraction. If we did, we would then have to buy a new sim card or setup a Google Voice number to create a new account. At least we can sign up by only using an email address now!
But to think things are any better now is fantasy. These days there are organised suspension squads targeting large nationalist accounts and publicly bragging about it. Surely that has to be against the site’s terms and conditions too? It’s a surprisingly common occurrence. The below screenshot is just one of many accounts I’ve found after a bit of searching.
As I have said before, X under Mr Musk may have an implied freedom of speech, but it doesn’t mean you have freedom of reach included with that promise. You may be able to more openly talk about sensitive historical events or controversial ideas, but you can just as easily have your account demonetised – after having to supply an ID to do so! The new vision X is pursuing also doesn’t mean it will have a higher quality of discussion or attract smarter people. Just 5 months ago, the decision was made by Mr Musk to allow pornography to be posted on X again, and there are still thousands of bot accounts popping up every day.
Bringing the conversation back to an Australian focus for a moment, our own Prime Minister has lately been going to war with free speech and social media. His proposal to introduce a bill to ban under-16s from social media has received huge backlash from the Australian public, as well as Mr Musk.
Seems like a backdoor way to control access to the Internet by all Australians https://t.co/694yCzWOaB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 21, 2024
Instead of letting parents parent their children, Mr Albanese is overstepping his bounds and policing the Internet. But what good is this strong rhetoric from Mr Musk when the frequency at which dissidents are being banned on X lately seems to be slowly approaching similar levels to how it was years ago under Jack Dorsey? He’s all talk and no results.
Prime Minister Albanese’s post about the bill attracted a Community Note which read: “This bill will require identity or age verification for all Australians to use social media, including adults. The government confirmed this is the only way to enforce it.”
His misinformation/disinformation bill has also recently been dropped, which on the face of it may seem like a victory for free speech, but this isn’t cause to rejoice. The stated reason for dropping the proposal was because there wasn’t a pathway to getting it passed in the Senate. They would proceed with it if they could pass it.
Our ability to advocate for our continued existence as a race and nation is under attack on all sides, and nothing will garner you more hatred online and in person than putting these values as your guiding worldview, in line with the vision Australia’s founding fathers had. Until nationalism becomes the guiding principle of Australia again, we must continue to fight for our ability to express ourselves politically and oppose any attempts that stop us from doing so.
Prominent nationalists have recently been saying that the time is now for nationalists to team up with libertarians who hold political power and influence in society, and they’re right. Only under a nationalistic government can we have the values of freedom of speech, expression, assembly and religion that libertarians hold dear. We won’t have those ideals if we persist with a multicultural Australia. If libertarians will back us, we will be loyal allies to them.
I can foresee an approaching future where the Liberal and Labor parties will lose their appeal because they abandoned their principles in the pursuit of multiculturalism, and parties that stay true to those values and their people will rise to replace them.
