Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon.Com Inc., speaking at an event in Seattle, Washington on October 5, 2021. Photo: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The anti-Semitic movie that made headlines after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted a link to Amazon won’t be removed from the tech giant’s platform, CEO Andy Jassy said this week.
Important reasons: The company has faced pressure to stop selling the film since Irving’s tweet, which was posted around the same time as rapper Ye’s anti-Semitic remarks and criticized former President Trump and white supremacist Posted before a dinner with Nick Fuentes from
- But Jassy said retailers have to allow access to different perspectives “even if they’re objectionable.”
- Documentary “From Hebrews to Blacks: Wake Up, Black America!” Features False Claims of Jewish Control of the Media and Conspiracy Theories Denying Millions of Jews Died in the Holocaust is.
- Its Amazon synopsis claims that the film will “reveal the identity of the children of Israel.” Irving has since apologized for her own tweet.
what he says: “Trying to determine what content customers don’t have access to is one of our most vexing problems,” Jassy said at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit.
- “In some cases, it’s easier to have content that actively incites or encourages violence or teaches people things like pedophilia,” he said. does not allow them, they are simple decisions.”
- “When you have content whose primary purpose is not to endorse or attribute negative traits to people, it’s a lot more tricky and a very slippery slope,” Jassy said.
- “We do not tolerate hate, discrimination or harassment within our company. However, as a retailer that provides content to hundreds of millions of customers with different points of view, we must also be willing to allow access to those points of view. We recognize it, even if it’s offensive and different from our own personal perspectives.”
- “Look, I am Jewish too. I think we need principles, as big as we have hundreds of millions of customers.”
Big picture: Ashley Gold of Axios believes big tech companies facing the increasingly difficult task of consistent content moderation at scale should fend off some of the pressure they face on how to manage their platforms. hopes to make the most difficult decisions for outsiders.
Notable: Amazon has previously said it would consider adding content notices and disclaimers to movies, but Jassy said at the summit that the current content moderation process, including some content that could trigger the need to remove panel) is already a “fairly complex process” and “difficult to scale.”
- “I don’t want a store with a disclaimer on every page.”
don’t forget: According to the Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitic incidents last year reached an all-time high.
