

Chat control mandates a piece of software on your device that spies on what you do and sends that to the government and their partners.
Chat control does not protect children.
Chat control is a way for governments to stay in front of any dissent and organizing efforts from it’s citizens. This makes it safer and easier to take away rights and ultimately gives a path away from democracy.
Would be a good start.
What should be banned is collection, storage, aggregation and trading of personal data. Social media needs to be unprofitable. The surveilance economy is not good for free societies.
The companies would still engage in it. But then you at least have something to hit them over the head with.