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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @02:42PM
Simple - backwards compatability and standards. However, all those can be changed client-side using a decent browser, of which I only currently know of one for Windows: Pale Moon [palemoon.org]. Throw on NoScript, the anti-animated-image addon (I don't use one myself), and change two entries in about:config to "false"- media.autoplay.enabled and media.autoplay.allowscripted. No more autoplaying animated imaged nor video.