I prefer to see the branding in case I want to buy one myself. Unless it's a blatant ad, I never really felt annoyed by a visible brand or logo.

What about branding that is the target of the "going hard"?

Say an anti-cigarette-company image, that, oh, e.g. identifies the average-life-span of the "Marlboro Man" models who smoked Marlboros??

Differentiate based on how it is being implimented in the image, not on the fact that it exists.

Disallowing brand-images would disallow criticism of those brands from appearing here, wouldn't it?

Beware of clumsy law!

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