What about payments? And web hosting? And so many other things?
It’s never been easier to start a site, yes, but it’s also never been more obvious that the providers that make it that easy aren’t interested in neutrality.
I wonder how far technological independence can take you. There are still plenty of ways to cut you off from the infrastructure: your banks, your payment providers, your datacenter providers, etc. In theory, "they" can come after any company that your business depends on and that can be vulnerable to "cancel culture". It's now easy to make you so toxic nobody will want to take the risk of associating with you.
The only roadblock is DDOS protection since Cloudflare has shown an equal propensity for censorship.