<p><img src="https://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5ffc6923d184b30018aae058-2400/Jeannine-Pirro-fox-news-kristallnacht.jpg" border="0" alt="Jeannine Pirro fox news kristallnacht" data-mce-source="MIKE THEILER/AFP via Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Fox News host Jeannine Pirro"></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>Fox News host Jeanine Pirro compared tech companies dropping <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-parler-rose-from-obscurity-conservative-alternative-twitter-platform-2020-11">Parler</a> from their cloud services to the Kristallnacht Nazi pogrom on Monday morning on "Fox & Friends."</p><p>Following the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-statement-officer-murdered-during-riot-incited-by-trump-2021-1">deadly attempted coup</a> last week, Pirro's comments came as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-threatens-parler-ban-over-alleged-role-in-coup-attempt-2021-1">Apple, Amazon, Google and other companies</a> pulled their business relationships with the social media app many Trump supporters flocked to as an alternative to Twitter.</p><p>"Well look, they gave us a taste of this pre-election when they suppressed the Hunter Biden story," Pirro said, referring to when Twitter limited the circulation of an <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-hunter-joe-biden-giuliani-red-flags-disinformation-2020-10">error-laden New York Post story</a> linked to a Russian disinformation campaign ahead of the 2020 election.</p><p>"And now that they've won, what we're seeing is the kind of censorship that is akin to a Kristallnacht, where they decide what we can communicate about," Pirro said.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation=""><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fox's Jeanine Pirro says the deplatforming of Parler, a haven for white supremacists, "is akin to a Kristallnacht," an infamous night of Nazi hate crimes against Jewish people. <a href="https://t.co/D3L6JrkD1X">pic.twitter.com/D3L6JrkD1X</a></p> Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1348636201041977344'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>Parler was where many of the pro-Trump insurrectionists <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-for-weeks-in-plain-sight-the-police-werent-ready">openly planned storming the Capitol</a>. Pirro said the deplatforming by big tech was tantamount to killing the app, though the move may not be fatal <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/parler-shutdown-by-amazon-might-not-be-fatal-to-the-social-network-2021-1">as long as Parler can find somewhere else to offer server space</a>.</p><p>Estimates from historians put the death toll at Kristallnacht at a minimum of 91 people, with 267 synagogues destroyed across Germany, Austria and parts of what are now the Czech Republic over two days in 1938.</p><p>Pirro's comparison was quite different from that of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who denounced the Capitol Siege as eerily similar to the Kristallnacht attacks in his home nation of Austria.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation=""><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Arnold Schwarzenegger denounced Wednesday's attack on the Capitol, calling Donald Trump the worst president ever <a href="https://t.co/sCOgw1jUdk">pic.twitter.com/sCOgw1jUdk</a></p> Reuters (@Reuters) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1348569087148843010'ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 11, 2021</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>A Fox News spokesperson pointed Insider to Pirro's recent <a href="https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1348091745100320768/vid/786x432/kQ2wYYMDjiXB8wqf.mp4'tag=13">monologue</a> where she condemned the violence on Capitol Hill.</p><bi-shortcode id="expanded-coverage" class="mceNonEditable" data-source="capitol-siege-module" data-show-header="true">Expanded Coverage Module: capitol-siege-module</bi-shortcode><p><strong><em>Read more:</em></strong><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-parler-rose-from-obscurity-conservative-alternative-twitter-platform-2020-11">Inside the rapid and mysterious rise of Parler, the 'free speech' Twitter alternative, which created a platform for conservatives by burning the Silicon Valley script</a></em></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-jeannine-pirro-compares-parler-kristallnacht-clip-2021-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story »</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/red-wine-good-heart-health-benefits-healthy-cardiologist-2019-4">A cardiologist revealed the truth behind red wine's health benefits</a></p>
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