I don't think the argument isn't that other platforms don't have things like "verified" and "shadowbanned". It's the connotations attached to them. On Twitter, just about anyone can get verified. Shadowbanning requires a serious fuck up (for example, Trump was only banned after inciting a riot).

Seems that Parler has taken a very different approach. Attaching political goals and ideology to the business model of a social network.

Pretty good write up here: https://www.wired.com/story/parler-app-free-speech-influence...