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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @09:43PM
> just as serious of racism among non-white groups.
Define "serious."
Because racism without power is, by definition, powerless.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:28PM
What is "power"? If someone is being beaten to death by a bunch of racist people who belong to another race, does it make any difference to that individual whether their racism is institutional or not? In such a situation, the racist group has "power". When you look at everything in terms of groups and identity politics, it's easy to miss the plights of individuals.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:40PM
> When you look at everything in terms of groups and identity politics, it's easy to miss the plights of individuals.
Did you just try to argue that racism is only a problem for individuals?
Really?
Lol.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @04:34AM
That's not an argument.
I am an individual. I do not have some sort of communal psychic connection only to other people of similar genetic composition. Any determination I make of another person, or from another person against me, is done on the individual level even if it draws from experience from people of similar physical appearances. Therefore, yes, racism is a problem at the individual level.
State your own assertions or continue your epic fail.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Monday December 19 2016, @02:11AM
They have plenty of power to punch someone in the face, or rape them, or both. This whole doesn't have power so can't be racist nonsense is just an obscene excuse for people to be racist, as long as they are not white.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @03:58AM
Oh please.
What is the problem with being racist?
Really. Its like the n-word for white people.
But so what if someone is racist? Do you think we are going to magically eliminate individuals' prejudices? You might as well believe that one day we can eliminate being a jerk.
The only thing that makes racism different from simply being a jerk is when it is practiced systematically. There will always be jerks, its human nature. But when society is organized in a way to cater to a certain kind of jerk, its not the jerk that's the problem its the organizing that is the problem.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday December 19 2016, @10:42AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves