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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @07:01AM (#442982)

    Both of which are 100% true. If he had a son, he would look a lot like Trayvon and that cop who arrested a harvard professor inside his own house because he spent too long fiddling with his own front door not only acted stupidly but was a god damn racist.

    Funny how simply being black is considered pouring gasoline on the fire.
    Says way more about how fragile certain white people are than it does about Obama.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @02:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @02:35PM (#443134)

    Both of which are 100% true.

    You can pour gasoline on a fire using 100% truth. Examples could include average IQs of blacks vs whites vs asians, etc., and how fat yo momma is.