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In a blog posted Thursday, the human rights group accused the e-commerce giant of allowing the marketing and sale of monetized Nazi and neo-Nazi paraphernalia on its website.
SWC contacted Amazon yesterday (January 11th) via email to immediately remove these products and immediately put in place a system to end monetization of the mass marketing giant’s hateful product. requested that Amazon has yet to respond to SWC’s latest request,” the human rights group said in a post.
Amazon said it allowed several companies to sell products related to Nazis and neo-Nazis, including swastika necklaces and face masks. The letter to Amazon also included screenshots of these items.
The e-retailer has removed some of these items, but some similar items are still listed on Amazon’s website, reports technology news outlet Gizmodo.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, SWC’s vice dean and head of global social affairs, added in a statement that Amazon should immediately remove and update the site and shut it down. We endorse all Nazi, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist paraphernalia.
“At a time when 63% of America’s religious-based hate crimes target American Jews, or 2.4% of the American population, blacks are once again the number one target of racial-based hate crimes. And Amazon is a business model that sells hate symbols and neo-Nazi paraphernalia,” Cooper continued.
Cooper added that SWC is ready to work with Amazon to identify and ban other items related to anti-Semitism and hate groups, but this is the first time the organization has filed a complaint with Amazon. is not.
According to Gizmodo’s report, Cooper said, “Playing a game of whack-a-mole instead of solving problems is totally unacceptable for the biggest economy on the block.”
When contacted about this matter, an Amazon spokesperson referred to the company’s policy as it pertains to “potentially offensive products,” the New York Post reported.
“Our Offensive Products Policy prohibits the sale of products that promote, incite, or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance, or promote organizations that hold such views. , and lists graphically depicting violence or victims of violence written by the company.
“To enforce our policy, we have proactive mechanisms in place to detect offensive listings before customers see them. We continuously scan for text and images that we determine violate our policies and remove them immediately,” Amazon said.
“The area of potentially offensive products is nuanced and diverse, and we review thousands of products against our policies every day to ensure compliance,” the e-commerce giant added.
