The government can regulate speech for both over-the-air radio and over-the-air television. How can this be if both are protected by the First Amendment? O They can't be regulated by the government. The question is therefore misleading. O Like obscenity, defamation, and copyright violations, which occur in newspapers and other media, and which are not protected by the First Amendment, the government can prohibit that speech as well when it occurs in broadcasting. They aren't protected by the First Amendment. The question is therefore misleading.Some early 20th century Americans were not willing to tolerate nudity, adult storylines, or intemperate language, all of which audiences today tolerate, and all of which were dominate in movies produced mostly during the 1920s. There are a number of reasons for that. But among the most interesting reasons is O most Americans were Catholics, and Catholic teaching at the time prohibited consumption of the kind of entertainment that movie producers were distributing. O they were afraid God would punish them given the hyper-religious fundamentalism of the day. most Americans were first- or second-generation descendants of westward migrating pioneers, children or grandchildren of the original Colonists. Many even came to Texas and points west in Conestoga wagons. Nudity and naughty language were for them, unthinkable. It was simply not tolerable. O that movie-goers could be fined if they were found to be in movie theaters where that sort of material was being exhibited