The best model would be the time period from 1910 to 1950 where the US Supreme Court had ruled that motion pictures had no 1st amendment protection. This let st

The best model would be the time period from 1910 to 1950 where the US Supreme Court had ruled that motion pictures had no 1st amendment protection. This let states censor and dictate at the same level that China is doing right now. Productions that wanted access to the entire US market bent to the most restrictive state’s demands. Did some states occasionally pay to incentivize compliance? Don’t know about that, but the function is largely the same.