In the Star Trek universe, Starfleet cadets are put through a training simulation called the “Kobayashi Maru” to see how they respond to a no-win scenario.
Which brings us to Star Trek actor Wil Wheaton, who is putting Twitter CEO in his own no-win scenario of his own and publicly calling out Twitter management to ban Alex Jones or he will not return to the platform:
Logged out on Friday, and spent the whole weekend being present with my family, creating art I care about, pretending to be an adult, and not having the angry hate machine buzzing in my pocket. My small experiment says life is better without Twitter. 1/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
It's a real shame that Twitter's leadership doesn't seem to care about the hateful people it empowers, and enforces its own TOS so unevenly, giving preferential treatment to high profile people like Alex Jones, who have *clearly* broken that same TOS. 2/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
The Alex Jones thing is the last straw for me. Every other social network has rightfully removed that awful man's ability to use their platform to spew his hate, to attack and hurt people like the Sandy Hook parents, except Twitter. Why? I believe it's a failure of leadership. 3/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
I'm just posting this here for the few of you who care: I'm planning to sign out and stay signed out unless and until Twitter follows the leadership of other social networks, and says enough is enough to Alex Jones and people like him. 4/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
Twitter is a private business and can decide who and what it promotes and enables. There are certain things that just should be outside the bounds of civil society. Attacking parents whose children were murdered should be one of those things. 5/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
Twitter used to be fun. It was a potential force for good in the world, but it's become the social network equivalent of that cool punk club that was taken over by skinheads, and I don't want to be part of it any more. 6/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
Wheaton then encouraged his followers to join Shannon Coulter’s mega-block of the Fortune 500 companies on Twitter:
So a bunch of us are hoping that Twitter will take Alex Jones' hate and cruelty and flaunting of Twitter's own TOS seriously, and ban him. If you want to join us, @shannoncoulter has made it really easy to take some action: https://t.co/qNlEXMkDFG 7/
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
Thanks for listening. If you just can't live without my dumb jokes, #Resistance posts, and pictures of my pets, I'll still be at Instagram and Facebook (itswilwheaton) , at https://t.co/KyYRI0iYzf (wilw), https://t.co/kxEvsmmhX6 and, of course, https://t.co/Z9r5LiKE0U. 8/end pic.twitter.com/8U0jUObUsO
— Wil 'this account mocks fascists' Wheaton (@wilw) August 13, 2018
According to Coulter, almost 50,000 have subscribed to her block list:
We're at 48,153 subscribers to the block list now. We may hit 50k sometime within the next few hours. Remember, many others have done the CSV and manual blocking methods. #BlockParty500
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) August 14, 2018
It’s the Kobayashi F-U! If Jack doesn’t act on Alex Jones, he loses his SJW crowd. If he does act at this point without a new violation from Jones, then he’ll piss off the free-speech crowd. He can’t win.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 16, 2018
HOLY CRAP! Did Twitter and @jack finally do something RIGHT? (Hint: Linda Sarsour will be PISSED) https://t.co/eZp7NjlIuH
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 31, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 15, 2018
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 19, 2018
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