A lot of the big players have enacted nearly permanent bans. I'd have to look up the specifics, but generally the process is: 1. Require an approved phone numb

A lot of the big players have enacted nearly permanent bans. I'd have to look up the specifics, but generally the process is: 1. Require an approved phone number upon signup or instant account "permanent suspension" 2. Require video of face and you holding id card 3. Associate "forever identifiers" in android with past accounts and ban your new, functional account if it shows up on a device that was previously associated with a banned account. I'm not sure if Apple has similar hard-reset-surviving identifies. 4. Ban accounts that somehow got passed your prior checks but you have reason to suspect they aren't conforming to normal behavior. I think all these practices are bad, bad, bad, so I don't use any sites that require them, but that is mostly how Meta and other large social networks operate these days. I assume they do it for surveillance reasons, associating an account with the correct person to get more money out of their data, but since the precedence exists, it makes it that much easier for other sites to follow.