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Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Wednesday the institution does not person plans to halt selling the antisemitic movie that gained notoriety precocious aft Brooklyn Nets defender Kyrie Irving tweeted retired an Amazon nexus to it.
Pressure has been mounting connected Amazon to discontinue merchantability of the film, called "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America," since Irving shared the nexus to the documentary with his millions of Twitter followers successful October. The synopsis connected Amazon says the movie "uncovers the existent individuality of the Children of Israel."
At The New York Times' DealBook Summit successful New York City, Jassy said it is hard for the institution to find what contented crosses the enactment to wherever Amazon doesn't marque it disposable to customers.
"As a retailer of contented to hundreds of millions of customers with a batch of antithetic viewpoints, we person to let entree to those viewpoints, adjacent if they are objectionable -- objectionable and they disagree from our peculiar viewpoints," the Times quoted Jassy arsenic saying.
He said making decisions astir what contented to instrumentality down is "more consecutive forward" successful immoderate cases, specified arsenic erstwhile it "actively incites oregon promotes violence, oregon teaches radical to bash things similar pedophilia."
Dozens of celebrities, nationalist figures arsenic good arsenic Jewish organizations and the Nets person called connected the institution to instrumentality down the movie oregon adhd a disclaimer offering an mentation arsenic to wherefore the documentary and related publication are problematic.
Amazon told the paper earlier this period that it would look into adding a disclaimer connected the documentary's main page. But that hasn't happened.
The Seattle-based institution did not reply to petition for remark sent by The Associated Press earlier this period connected whether it would adhd a disclaimer oregon not. Jassy, who is Jewish, said Wednesday that Amazon has employees that emblem content, but scaling that much broadly could beryllium challenging.
"The world is that we person precise expansive lawsuit reviews," helium said. "For books with a batch of attraction -- particularly nationalist attraction -- customers bash a bully occupation monitoring different people."
Irving was suspended by the Nets connected Nov. 3 aft helium refused to contented the apology that NBA commissioner Adam Silver sought for posting the nexus the the film. He returned aft issuing an apology much than 2 weeks later. He missed 8 games.
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