"Just make your own platform, if you want free speech" they said.

So they did.

And then they still try to silence it.

Parler was just a republic echo chamber similar to how a lot of areas of the web are democrat echo chambers. Free speech should be defended at all costs even if you don't agree with it.

Luckily they can just colocate their own hardware because datacenters don't really give a fuck and aren't ran by SJWs since most dataceners aren't household names and would likely enjoy the press.

I don't have a Parler account and don't really want one, but this is a crazy world.

Hard guessing how much hardware a site like that takes to run, but rent a rack in a datacenter like Quadranet, setup some localized high availability, plenty of companies specialize in DDoS mitigation to help with that load. And they'd be set. The datacenter is unlikely to give a fuck what they're doing unless they're ruining the reputation of rented IP space, which they could always bring their own. The upstream bandwidth providers don't care. They build networks, they're not a bunch of SJWs.