>The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.
The Founding Fathers used this to their advantage.
They colluded with the handful of major publishers of the time to orchestrate a rolling, synchronized release of the Federalist Papers, saturating the already-monopolized (due to the massive expense of presses and paper) media market with their ideas.
The authors of the Anti-Federalist Papers had no such deal. They had to print out their responses on their own and distribute them by hand.
The country probably would not have even gotten to the point of needing a debate about a constitution, one-sided as it was, if it hadn't been for publishers telling non-conforming opinions to fuck off.
And please, nobody chime in with "publisher v. platform": it is irrelevant, you're wrong.
The Founding Fathers used this to their advantage.
They colluded with the handful of major publishers of the time to orchestrate a rolling, synchronized release of the Federalist Papers, saturating the already-monopolized (due to the massive expense of presses and paper) media market with their ideas.
The authors of the Anti-Federalist Papers had no such deal. They had to print out their responses on their own and distribute them by hand.
The country probably would not have even gotten to the point of needing a debate about a constitution, one-sided as it was, if it hadn't been for publishers telling non-conforming opinions to fuck off.
And please, nobody chime in with "publisher v. platform": it is irrelevant, you're wrong.