We have "the phone company" equivalent on the internet (registrars and hosts) denying access to ideologies they don't approve of. If you don't think that's denying speech, then let's just agree to disagree.
having said that, in 2022 with a fiber connection and a 200$ NAS (with a very user friendly web interface) you can host a DNS, a web server, a WordPress instance, a mail server, a mastodon instance and serve a lot of content.
that's what decentralized internet is all about.
Going back to the Cloudflare example, the organizers of that campaign did not want Cloudflare to withdraw service because they thought that this would take the site down, they wanted them to withdraw service because this would make them vulnerable to criminal activity (DDOS). And, sure enough, that is exactly what has happened.
because a private company surely don't value it as much as you do and won't protect you especially if what you say ends up in a DDOS attempt for them.
mainly because they don't have to.
your freedoms are your responsibility.
Way off on a tangent here, but do you happen to recommend a particular NAS? I'm in the market.
it's easier, nobody can deny that, but phone companies don't sell you a name, they sell you an address and the right to use the pipes.
if people have the will they have the means.
freedom of speech doesn't mean that speech should be provided free of charge by private companies.
But honestly you can move your domain on any maintainer you want.