Amazon covers the New York subway cars in Nazi symbols to ad show
Shuttle train covered with Nazi and Japanese Imperial symbols to ad Amazon show the man in the High Castle.
MANHATTAN seats on a shuttle train Times Square are wrapped in symbols of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, an advertisement for a new series of Amazon The Man in The High Castle, which caused an uproar in social media.
A variant of the world war then aII Japanese flag covers one side of the car while the other side is smeared with Nazi insignia raised in an American flag The exterior of the car has also symbols.
The Man in the High Castle, based on the novel 1962 explores an alternate history where the Axis won World War Amazon is streaming the TV series on its online advertising campaign was reported by Gothamist .
The cover of the novel uses the imperial original Sun logo and the swastika, the new show is not used in advertising.
Straphangers Grand Central Monday didn t seem to notice that they had entered the teeming Car fascist symbols A child says this same subway car is not cool realizing what the symbols represented.
Critics on Twitter Amazon have hurt the campaign.
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Everyone was Overwriting course a Twitter user said although the symbols are unpleasant, Amazon has a First Amendment right to advertise the show as he pleases.
Instead of blaming Amazon, a Straphanger criticized the MTA to accept the ad.
It is not suppress the right of the TV series to imagine a future that is quite different from today's reality, it is the MTA to create an environment that does not propagate hate speech or the badge hatred, Ann Toback told PIX11 News.
We do not think that this ad does not meet our content standards neutral ad, MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg told PIX11 News.
MTA policy, adopted after an ad policy issue was controversial, says ads should not be created, designated or used as a public forum for expression activities or general speeches or opinions.
They're limited to the paid commercial advertising, public service announcements and government posts There is also a provision which requires the maintenance of a safe and welcoming environment.
The agency that created the ads did not return an email seeking comment.
The MTA is about 130 million a year in advertising revenue.
Advertising on the shuttle started running on November 15 and will remain in December 14 There are posters of the TV series in 260 metro stations, Lisberg said Gothamist.
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