??? Isn’t a burner phone just an ordinary phone you can buy at all of the same places? Who of us is confused about terminology?

The EU is planning to do something along those lines, as I understand it.

But that’s completely beside the point because it’s not a good idea in the first place to prohibit young people from participating in online communities. Participating in online communities is a fun, fulfilling and mostly harmless activity that improves many young people’s mental health, creativity, communication skills, and probably has other benefits too. I wouldn’t be the person I am now if I hadn’t started doing that regularly at age 10.

We shouldn’t be talking about “actually it’s about surveillance” or thinking about less privacy-invasive ways to achieve the same goal. We should be saying “if your goal is to reduce the amount of young people on social media, or the time they spend there, then your goal is wrong”.

Why does humanity have to keep fighting the same fights against different governments over and over again?

Cannot governments, for once, be even slightly on the side of a free society?