Amazon takes away James Bond's gun

The finger and the moon, the finger and the moon. Apparently, for a time, Amazon Prime Video was showing retouched versions of the posters for the James Bond films offered by the platform, whose guns could have been removed with Photoshop. There has been controversy—or rather laughter—on social media and the inevitable accusation ofwokismRidiculous. The service has removed those aberrations and selected other images that, without editing them, did not include weapons. One of the censored posters was that of Sean Connery in the film Agent 007 vs. Dr. No, which is on display at London's National Portrait Gallery, as agent 007 (and his discreet Walter PPK) is an indisputable part of cinematic iconography.

Calling Amazon leftist for this madness is absurd. Because, meanwhile, its owner, Jeff Bezos, has taken a publishing turn by Washington Post to greatly soften the critical positions on Trump. And he gave a million euros for his last presidential inauguration, in which the careerism of the big tech to the Republican, and it became clear that his only ideology is to maximize profit even at the expense of the common good. Bezos also ordered the removal of indications of the costs of tariffs on Amazon products to avoid conflicts with Trump's trade policies. The objective is to ensure government contracts with the space company Blue Origin and also those for the rental of internet servers. At a time when the right is strengthening itself in the media in the country, taking up space both on social networks and in themainstreamThe poster controversy is pure distraction and just another way of focusing the debate on minutiae. The finger and the moon, the finger and the moon.