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from the physical-assault-in-a-virtual-world dept.
Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald, who is known to be suffering from epilepsy, reported on twitter that someone tweeted him a seizure-inducing image. This is not the first time it happened, but this attempt was (apparently) successful in triggering a seizure.
This might be the first physical attack on a person perpetrated via the internet. A sad point in history, in my view.
Links: coverage from Ars Technica, Eichenwald's Twitter feed. I'm not linking to the offending image - you're big enough to find it on your own and apparently it is quite horrible even for people who do not suffer from epilepsy.
Eichenwald has tweeted that he is involving law enforcement.
Any ideas on how hard it would be to filter out seizure-inducing media (make it click-to-view/play)?
(Score: 5, Touché) by BK on Sunday December 18 2016, @07:29PM
While we're at it, could we make a plugin that filters out things on the internet made by dumb people? And by any incarnation of Ethanol-Fueled? And by people who are wrong [xkcd.com]? And SPAM - can all of that be filtered? And also anything that might harm my precious little snowflake psyche or make me feel bad?
Good grief.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:40PM
Filtering SN user comments should be trivial, in fact, I'm pretty sure somebody's already developed a greasemonkey extension or something to do it.
Also, a joke: What do you do when an epileptic falls into a swimming pool?
Throw in some detergent and your dirty laundry!
Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @02:41AM
"While we're at it, could we make a plugin that filters out things on the internet made by dumb people? "
Easily. If the byte received is greater than the value 0, move it to device null.