Amazon removes Nazi and neo-Nazi items after human-rights group protests
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Jordan Hart
Jan 15, 2023, 02:37 IST
Although several of the items pointed out by the SWC have been removed from Amazon, many similar items remain available for purchase.Simon Wiesenthal Center
Amazon is once again under fire for allowing offensive items to be sold on its site.
The SWC says it isn't the first — or second — time it's called out the retailer for Nazi propaganda.
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An international Jewish human-rights organization is once again calling out Amazon for purported Nazi-related content.
The human-rights organization said Amazon allowed various businesses to market and sell items associated with neo-Nazis, including swastika necklaces and face masks. They included screenshots of some of these items in a letter to Amazon.
"Amazon is the nation's go-to online store for every imaginable product," Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean and director of global social action at the SWC, said in a statement.
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"In an era when 63% of all religious-based hate crimes in America target America's Jews—2.4% of the US population, at a time when Blacks are again the number one target of race-based hate crimes, Amazon should not be using its business model to market hateful symbols and neo-Nazi paraphernalia," Cooper continued.
"It's simply not acceptable for the biggest economic giant on the block to play games of Whac-A-Mole rather than fix things," Cooper said, according to Gizmodo.
"Our technology continuously scans all products listed for sale looking for text and images that we have determined violate our policies, and immediately removes them," the policy reads.
"The realm of potentially offensive products is nuanced and diverse, and we review thousands of products every day against our policies to ensure compliance."
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