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Conservative host Glenn Beck gets roasted for saying Big Tech is setting up a 'digital ghetto' — RT USA News
by RT|Published January 14, 2021
Jewish groups joined people online in blasting author and pundit Glenn Beck for saying US tech companies are behaving like Nazi Germany did against the Jews.
Appearing on Tucker Carlson's show 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Fox News, Beck was discussing the recent actions of Big Tech.
In the wake of the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters, Apple and Google removed Parler, a social network popular with conservatives, from its app stores, and Amazon cut the company off its servers, forcing Parler to go offline. Trump himself was banned from Facebook and Twitter.
In light of these events, Carlson asked Beck about the risks conservative media companies like the Blaze, which Beck had founded, are currently facing from Big Tech. Beck began by comparing the situation with the internment of the Japanese Americans during WWII.
"We made one of the biggest mistakes of the 20th century by taking our own citizens and confiscating their wealth, making sure they couldn't work, shutting them down, and then – putting them in camps. Tucker, this is the road we're on again," Beck said.
He then drew a comparison with the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany.
"You can't have freedom of speech if you can't express yourself in a meaningful place. This is like the Germans with the Jews behind the wall. They would put them in a ghetto. Well, this is the digital ghetto," Beck said. "You can talk all you want. Jews, you do whatever you want behind the wall. Well, that's not meaningful. And that's where we are. That's where millions of Americans will be."
He later clarified: "And again, it's not to compare it to the Germans. It is not to… do anything but warn – if you don't stand up for free speech, you will be the one that loses it as well."
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Beck's remarks immediately sparked backlash from Jewish groups. The American Jewish Committee said the "constant weaponization of history's darkest chapter is deeply offensive and an affront to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust."
The constant weaponization of history's darkest chapter is deeply offensive and an affront to the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.There's no comparison between big tech companies enforcing their community standards and the Holocaust. None.Apologize, @GlennBeck. https://t.co/VuptXFoXKr
— American Jewish Committee (@AJCGlobal) January 13, 2021
Hate crime watchdog StopAntisemitism.org pointed out that Jews were subjected to murder and starvation in the ghettos during the Holocaust, "Glenn Beck's digital ghetto" is about "not being able to tweet."
Reality from an ACTUAL ghetto during the Holocaust: – 25 people living in a 1 bedroom apartment with a loaf of bread to eat for a WEEK- Parents murdered, leaving 12 year olds to raise 2 year olds- Suicide all aroundGlenn Beck's digital ghetto:- not being able to tweet https://t.co/Qm6mQiGCPn
— StopAntisemitism.org (@StopAntisemites) January 13, 2021
"This is nothing like what the Nazis did to the Jews and if you think that you're an absolute moron," CNN host Jake Tapper said.
Users on Twitter blasted the conservative radio host for the "horrible" comparison, with some posting historical photos from the Holocaust.
In his defense, Beck said that the terms 'digital ghetto' and 'algorithm ghetto' were first coined by Jewish historian and investigative journalist Edwin Black in 2018.
"I was concerned – and I remain even more concerned – that the activities of the oligarchs of digital control are, in fact, trying to shunt us into digital ghettos," Black said on Beck's show.
Jewish historian Edwin Black coined the term "digital ghetto" in 2018. When the son of Holocaust survivors warns me about Big Tech, I listen. And you should too:https://t.co/C72VaJXrcq
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) January 13, 2021
Beck's remarks came amid a string of references to Nazi Germany in recent weeks.
President-elect Joe Biden compared Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, while Arnold Schwarzenegger compared the storming of the Capitol to Kristallnacht, a series of state-sanctioned pogroms across Germany and Austria in 1938.
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