Diesel's 'Be stupid' work too stupid for U.K.

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Diesel's "Be stupid" campaign, created by ad agency Anomaly, won a Grand Prix in Outdoor at Cannes last week. But two of the executions won't be seen outdoors, or anywhere else, in the U.K. from now on. The Ad Standards Authority has banned the two ads shown here—one with a woman flashing a surveillance camera, and a second with another woman photographing the inside of her bikinis bottoms—on the grounds that they're indecent and promote anti-social behavior.

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