“Inside the company, we won’t tolerate hate or discrimination or harassment, but we also recognize, as a retailer of content to hundreds of millions of customers with lots of different viewpoints, that we have to be willing to allow access to those viewpoints, even if they are objectionable — and even if they differ from our own personal viewpoints if you’re gonna serve that number of people,” Jassy said.
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“We don’t want to have a store where every page has a disclaimer,” Jassy said. “The reality, too, is that we have very expansive customer reviews. For the books that have a lot of attention — and have a lot of public attention like this — customers do a pretty good job of warning people when there’s objectionable content.”
Irving was suspended by the Nets after he repeatedly failed to apologize for the tweet. He eventually issued an apology and rejoined the team after missing eight games.
“I don’t know all the details around why they ultimately decided to [suspend Irving], but that’s a decision I’m sure [Nets owner] Joe Tsai and the team thought carefully about,” Jassy said.
