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FakeBeldin [soylentnews.org] writes:

Newsweek journalist Kurt Eichenwald, who is known to be suffering from epilepsy, reported on twitter [twitter.com] that someone tweeted him a seizure-inducing image. This is not the first time it happened [newsweek.com], 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 [arstechnica.co.uk], Eichenwald's Twitter feed [twitter.com]. 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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