Right after Twitter made the decision to ban President Trump from their platform, the tech titan lost $5 billion in market value sending their stock tumbling a whopping 12%. After such a financial backlash, most companies would immediately undergo some sort of soul searching and a reversal of course to please their shareholders. But defying all logic, Twitter doubled down as CEO Jack Dorsey called the company’s decision the “right move for the social network.”

“Offline harm as a result of online speech is demonstrably real, and what drives our policy and enforcement above all,” he wrote.

To one Rabbi, this attitude is eerily similar to the Bible’s most notorious dictator – Pharaoh.

Israel365 interviewed Rabbi Ari Abramowitz, the same behavior that Pharaoh displayed when God hardened his heart is the same behavior we are seeing from social media CEOs vis-à-vis censorship of free speech.

Rabbi Abramowitz accuses the tech companies of “stripping people of their liberty” just as Pharaoh did. The rabbi sees a direct parallel between the arrogance of Pharaoh’s magicians to that of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who according to Abramowitz have become a type of arbiter of what people get to talk about. He adds that the same way the Egyptian overlords believed that they could manipulate the elements, so too do the big tech companies see themselves as a type of deity who can manipulate the world’s communication.