Until this cartel is broken up by Congress or the courts, the future of free speech are browser based forums like this, which are immune to app store blackouts, and foreign country server hosting, which are immune to US communist pressure tactics.
It would be great if platforms like WhatsApp created their own free exchange forum. The big tech app stores would not be able to block it since its use without impacting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. There is no collateral impact to banning Parler.
“Until this cartel is broken up by Congress or the courts”
Pretty safe to say that isn’t happening given the outcome of this election
Not if they take over the DNS system. If they do that, typing in “freerepublic.com” or some other site name would not work. You would need to know the actual IP address of the site to bypass DNS. How many people know that actual IP address of their favorite conservative sites?