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Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday December 18 2016, @06:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the physical-assault-in-a-virtual-world dept.

FakeBeldin writes:

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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @10:40PM (#442848)

    > 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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @04:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @04:34AM (#442952)

    Really?
    Lol.

    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.