See the historical notes under proposal and ratification, in particular the table of article revisions approved in 1789. The order of ratification was contingent on a series of historical accidents and has little to do with Madison’s (or any other individual founder’s) intentions.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
[0] https://techwrongs.org/2023/03/06/microsoft-is-not-a-religio...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism
[2] https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/cold-evil-tec...
It's depressing, though, because the only time people seem interested in this is when someone from the opposite political party is trying to influence content moderation policies.
If the Biden administration put undue pressure on social media companies, that's bad. If Donald Trump as president pressures Twitter to exempt him from their content moderation, that's also bad.
But you'll get very few people who will call out both things.
Sadly, almost nobody seems to care about the free speech of anyone except the people they agree with.
It's at the forefront of public conversation right now because it's an emerging issue in the tech space, but we have a long rich history of free speech cases to look back on.
https://rumble.com/v4fmjiu-mike-benz-part-2-how-the-departme...
