Andy Jassy says Amazon will allow the antisemitic film that Kyrie Irving tweeted to remain on sale for now.

Showing on the DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Amazon’s chief govt, Andy Jassy, mentioned the e-commerce large had no rapid plans to take away — or add a disclaimer — to the antisemitic movie that the Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving drew consideration to on the Amazon web site final month.

“As a retailer of content material to tons of of thousands and thousands of shoppers with a number of completely different viewpoints, we have now to permit entry to these viewpoints, even when they’re objectionable — objectionable and so they differ from our specific viewpoints,” Mr. Jassy mentioned.

Some choices are “extra simple,” he mentioned, like content material that “actively incites or promotes violence or teaches individuals learn how to do issues like pedophilia.”

Final month, Mr. Irving tweeted a hyperlink to Amazon for the documentary “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!” The movie has antisemitic content material, together with claims that Jews management the media, and the false assertion that thousands and thousands of Jews didn’t die in the course of the Holocaust.

The movie was self-produced by its director, Ronald Dalton Jr., in 2018, based on its itemizing on Amazon. It was additionally made obtainable on Amazon by way of its Prime Video Direct program, a self-service platform it began in 2016 to permit filmmakers and content material creators to add their works and attain the corporate’s thousands and thousands of shoppers.

The corporate has a “a major group of individuals,” in addition to a panel, Mr. Jassy mentioned, that appears at content material and makes choices on whether or not or to not take away it. He mentioned the content material monitoring course of was “fairly concerned” and tough to scale.

“On prime of that,” he mentioned, the corporate has to “determine you’ll construct one other course of the place you need to consider which objects get disclaimers.”

Amazon mentioned this month that it was “trying” at whether or not so as to add a disclaimer to the antisemitic video, after it obtained a letter from the Anti-Defamation League urging it to take action.

“The fact is that we have now very expansive buyer opinions,” Mr. Jassy mentioned. “For books with a number of consideration — particularly public consideration — prospects do job of warning different individuals.”