There are no unmoderated speech platforms. Email may be the closest, but even email at a large scale is complex enough that you have to use intermediaries. (The Princeton Election Emails Corpus confirms no Trump emails since Jan 6 electionemails2020.org/entity/59a162d…)
https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1347724201331814401
Of course, relatively unmoderated platforms like Parler are themselves subject to the standards of other intermediaries. It's platforms all the way down.
https://twitter.com/TarletonG/status/1347722496204828673
Some people want social media platforms to be neutral and apolitical. But a major value proposition of speech platforms is their recommender algos and moderation policies that amplify some voices and suppress others. They can’t make those decisions in a politically neutral way.
To state the obvious, I think it's a good thing that there are no unmoderated speech platforms. What's not good is that moderation and deplatforming decisions are in the hands of private companies with little transparency or accountability.
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