Or from any other stable, human rights respecting country that isn't a Five Eyes member. Doesn't save you from DNS blocking (and many other things), though.

See https://www.pirateparty.ch/wikileaks_ch_blocked (EveryDNS stated it isn't taking a position on the content hosted on the wikileaks.ch website)

In addition, I'd like to say that I don't think there is a problem with .com, .net, or .org

It's way more important which registrar you have.

Indeed. But it is also important to understand that just because it's the Internet, doesn't mean speech is absolutely free and that there are not consequences.

As far as user-generated content, perhaps this is a nod to policing that content much more unless you have the resources to handle legal challenges that will almost inevitably come up.

Call it anecdata, but I found switch.ch really hard to deal with: raw admin interface, odd billing, etc. As far as I know, they control .ch