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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: 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