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by evgen 1498 days ago
If you want to know why you are facing these problems please answer this simple question:

How is anyone at these major service providers supposed to distinguish between your claimed legitimate use and a fly by night spammer churning through disposable fake identities?

As you noted, you have no history or reputation. Nothing. The rest of us will gladly increase the cost of entry for you without any concern if it increases the cost for bad actors who are attempting to parasitise the system.

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What about young people who are new to the internet? Should we increase the cost of entry (or just flat out ban it) for them too for their lack of online reputation?
Those young people have absolutely no problem getting online and building enough presence to accomplish objectives. Maybe the questions you need to start asking are what makes you different from them or what are you doing that makes you seem downright sketch to all of these services. You are actively doing something that is making you appear untrustworthy or bucketing you in with the spammers. Figure out what that is and stop doing it.
Allowing young people new to the internet to get hooked on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. does them no favors.