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16 DEC 2016 AT 14:09 ET
Reporter Kurt Eichenwald is taking a short break from Twitter after another user sent him a flashing image that allegedly triggered a seizure.
The Newsweek reporter appeared Thursday night on Fox News, where he engaged in a combative interview with host Tucker Carlson over his social media claims that Donald Trump had been hospitalized for mental illness in 1990.
Eichenwald claimed Friday afternoon on social media that the Twitter user @jew_goldstein posted a GIF that caused him to have a seizure due to his epilepsy, and he announced he would take a break from posting there while he and his lawyers built a case against the culprit, reported Mediaite.
Kurt Eichenwald ✔
@kurteichenwald
For self-protection, I am taking a short twitter break. I will be spending that time with my lawyers & law enforcement going after 1 of u...
Kurt Eichenwald ✔
@kurteichenwald
Last night, for the second time, a deplorable aware I have epilepsy tweeted a strobe at me with the message "you deserve a seizure' on it...
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bettyellen
(47,209 posts)ananda
(28,891 posts)I'm sure he could use protective eyewear while on Twitter.
This is not to minimize the assault, nor to say anything
against the lawsuit, which I believe is warranted.
MineralMan
(146,345 posts)if they're confronted with an image that flashes or blinks at a certain rate. It's a well-known phenomenon, and just that sort of stimulation is used during EEGs as a diagnostic tool. I know, because I had one of those seizure challenge tests a year after recovering from viral encephalitis. No seizure, though, so I was OK.
If someone deliberately sends an image like that to someone known to have epileptic seizures, it is a deliberate assault. There's no eyewear that can block a strobing or flashing GIF image.
Here, do this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=seizure+gif
See this link, as well: http://www.ibtimes.com/animated-gifs-epilepsy-dangers-849817
Also, this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy
Knowledge is good!
Quackers
(2,256 posts)TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts):0
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)It was on the internet.
babylonsister
(171,106 posts)but never saw any substantive proof.
blue neen
(12,335 posts)Awful.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)Different Drummer
(7,669 posts)suspension of the @jew_goldstein account as being "anti-Semitic."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Waiting for an idiot to trivialize that Eichenwald wants a safe space for a while 'cause he can't handle the real world...
:sacrcasm:
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)to spread his hate.
babylonsister
(171,106 posts)I don't use it so easy for me to say. I do get to see all that's important (or not) being repeated.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Orange Julius received 70 percent of the media coverage compared to 30 percent for HRC.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That's a terrible idea. I know that a lot of us with more years in the 20th century than the 21st don't always "get" twitter, but it's pretty fucking crucial to the minute-by-minute global conversation. Ceding it to the right wing would be a disaster.
Anyway, the means of communication is not responsible for the message.
Maru Kitteh
(28,344 posts)resistance2016
(86 posts)If people are doing this, then obviously we as a country do not have the responsibility needed for freedom of speech.
Cha
(297,935 posts)asshole taken care of.
We need your voice, Kurt!
TYou, Don
mainer
(12,037 posts)I've followed him on Twitter and yes, he says he has seen evidence that Trump was hospitalized after longtime amphetamine abuse in the 80's. but he needed someone brave enough to corroborate this. Unfortunately, sources clammed up.