The Epilepsy Foundation announced that it filed criminal complaints against a legion of copycats who targeted people with epilepsy and sent them an onslaught of strobe GIFs.
Kurt Eichenwald sat down at the desk in his Dallas home office and logged onto Twitter. The prominent journalist and author was used to Internet invective — especially then, in the weeks after he posted aMore than 170 notifications awaited him when he signed on that evening, Dec. 15, 2016. But he didn’t make it past the first one: A GIF that strobed violently across his computer screen, flashing a red, yellow and blue geometric pattern behind the words “YOU DESERVE A SEIZURE FOR YOUR POSTS.”.
, was set to appear in a Dallas County district court. A last-minute rescheduling delayed the proceeding until Jan. 31, but Rivello is still expected to plead guilty to aggravated assault. And he may be the first of many.
Nichol said the organization has identified at least 30 instances in which a Twitter user responded to content the foundation posted on its own page by posting flashing or strobing lights.“What they’re doing virtually is no different than walking into a convention they know is the Epilepsy Foundation with a strobe light, hoping to cause seizures,” Nichol said. “It has the capacity to induce exactly the same harm.
“The fact that an electric impulse was used rather than an envelope for poison makes no difference,” Lieberman said. “This is an issue of an assault using a new sort of technology.”
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