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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday December 18 2016, @06:52PM   Printer-friendly
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)?


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @07:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @07:53PM (#442784)

    With our new government and it's backing by our hate groups, the KKK and neo-nazis, this will continue and escalate.

    Did you happen to vote for the candidate who was financially backed by Saudi Arabia by any chance?

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:05PM (#442789)

    > Did you happen to vote for the candidate who was financially backed by Saudi Arabia by any chance?

    I'm pretty sure he didn't vote for trump:
    Trump registered eight companies in Saudi Arabia during campaign [thehill.com]

  • (Score: 2) by tisI on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:47PM

    by tisI (5866) on Sunday December 18 2016, @08:47PM (#442802)

    No

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