I guess I'd prefer the defacement to the aforementioned chopping off to turn into sellable art.
So i guess censorship would actually be the worst case.
Ps. This line of thought relates to some of the other comments in these threads ("... [T]here's no protesting capitalism. There's nothing you can say about capitalism that it won't subsume and sell back to you." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093768)