Several issues with this A) who are the regulators? Typically these are elected officials that at least half of the population typically doesn't see eye to eye

Several issues with this A) who are the regulators? Typically these are elected officials that at least half of the population typically doesn't see eye to eye with, think left vs right. So why do they get to decide what is "in the interest of the public"? B) what makes undisclosed product placement so inherently evil or at least more evil than normal advertisement? There are extremely deceptive advertising techniques, just because you are aware something is an ad doesn't mean you can be fully aware of the manipulation tactics used against you, many can be very subtle. So to paint the whole thing with such broad brush and assume one just needs a binary answer to know if something is an ad or not assumes all ads are created with the same level of deceptiveness. C) finally people with "power and money" will find a way to communicate their message regardless, you can make it more difficult or expensive for them to do so, but at the end of the day that cost has to be imposed on someone and that is typically the consumer. I also find Tom Scott's videos highly well presented and produced but they lack the same level of quality when it comes to the concepts discussed in them.