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The only way to do this is if meaningful alternatives exist first.
you can't ban corporate-owned social media because the population would revolt. It's already revolting when social media is about to be banned for teenagers. just ask anyone on lemmy about this.
the fediverse needs to become an acceptable alternative first, only after that can people move away from big corpo-owned networks.
Pro tip but billionaires don't need to own things
Or you could expropriate it instead of banning it making all of this moot.
Addicts tend to suffer if you cut them off. We need to wean people off it.