I almost agree with the first two sentences, with this modification: > American founders ... were not too keen on an unfettered discourse of the masses I expe

I almost agree with the first two sentences, with this modification: > American founders ... were not too keen on an unfettered discourse of the masses I expect the founders' thinking about information sharing was largely based on their circumstances (printing presses, traditional mail service, town announcements, etc). Perhaps most founders considered them as immutable realities. Did any think of them as movable constraints? Did any think about the downstream economic and political consequences of lowering the cost of communication? I don't know off the top of my head. Have you seen any evidence of this?