Posted on 03/19/2017 6:26:45 PM PDT by Johnny Diamond
When the journalist Kurt Eichenwald opened an animated image sent to him on Twitter in December, the message “You deserve a seizure for your posts” appeared in capital letters along with a blinding strobe light. Mr. Eichenwald, who has epilepsy, immediately suffered a seizure.
On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had arrested John Rayne Rivello, 29, at his home in Salisbury, Md., and accused him of sending the electronic file. The agency charged Mr. Rivello with criminal cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm.
The charge could carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years, according to the United States district attorney in Dallas, who is prosecuting the case.
The unusual case has shown how online tools can be deployed as weapons capable of physical harm. The F.B.I. and the Dallas police led the investigation into Mr. Rivello, and the police said he sent the strobe light knowing that it was likely to lead Mr. Eichenwald, who has publicly discussed his epilepsy, into a seizure.
Steven Lieberman, Mr. Eichenwald’s lawyer, has argued that the use of the strobe light in a GIF, or moving graphic, was akin to sending an explosive or poison in the mail.
“This electronic message was no different than a bomb sent in the mail or anthrax sent in an envelope,” said Mr. Lieberman, who is working on the case as a pro bono service. “It triggers a physical effect.”
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I get them in early spring and late fall when the sun is at the perfect angle to produce glare on automobiles.
I only get them once or twice a year; there’s always a very tiny feeling of headache that only lasts a few minutes, but the jagged lightning-bolt thingies on the periphery of vision last about 20 minutes. Almost always set off by seeing some kind of flashy-light business.
That describes mine pretty much exactly except I don’t know what causes them. Like you, maybe a couple of times a year.
Probably connected with stress, mental or physical but not certain.
From what I’ve read, they’re not really like ‘regular’ migraines; they have to do with eyes, or something going on with the optic nerve.
I’ve had them for about ten years. The weird thing is that, for the first time in my life, they had to change my eyeglass prescription completely last year, because my eyesight had improved significantly.
I had realized that something was different - I only use glasses for driving, and don’t drive much anymore; and reading glasses for close work. But I had noticed that my eyeglasses just weren’t working anymore, and went to the doc where they told me my eyesight had improved.
I didn’t think that something like near-sightedness/astigmatism could improve.
I think he did keep Tweeting. He just claimed to be his wife.
I’ll bet he has fun at night with the strobes on highway patrol cruisers.
I-I-I aamm c-callingg m-myy l-lawyer!!
It happens. I’ve witnessed it.
Comparing an epileptic seizure to looking at a donut is moronic.
Now that was just plain Funny
There’s a little more to the story. Try not to jump to conclusions based on facts offered to the unsuspecting public, by one of the MOST NOTORIOUS asses of all time.
Eichenwald is an extremely skilled manipulator of facts and a known liar who has been enabled in the past by his employers & a judge.
Before we blindly accept that he had a seizure, let’s verify that through an independent source other than his md wife who signed into Twitter to reprimand the accused, within minutes of the so-called seizure.
md wife...
What’s an “md” wife?
BTTT.
And who coincidentally was on the hot seat about an innocent guy he’d been haranguing for making a simple mistake - who he demanded be fired from his job!
Eichenwald was privately emailing the reporter, making threats, rescinding the threats, offering to use his influence to get the guy another job IF the guy would let it go, threatening some more, and so on.
The reporter has filed a large lawsuit against Newsweek now as a result of Eichenwald’s actions; and has done quite a bit of investigative work in exposing E’s shady shady past.
About as well as you expect it to be. Hell has a better chance of freezing over than Hillary Clinton has of being investigated. Both Hillary and Satan know this.
Everybody Loves Hypnotoad
Fry’s thoughts about the show,
“This show has been going downhill since season 3
“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.”
Where is the evidence? NY SLIMES makes an assertion with no evidence.
This was a minor meme web site a decade or so ago:
Killer Japanese Seizure Robots
http://web.archive.org/web/20050225084211/http://www.seizurerobots.com/
My question is, what proof do we have that this guy actually had a seizure? It seems awfully convenient, and given the number of documented fake hate crimes ( http://www.fakehatecrimes.org ), I am always suspicious when political activists have something so convenient occur. I have read elsewhere that computer images inducing a seizure is not at all common.
That’s not even as bad as the Seizure Robots I posted just above.
M.D. wife. Sorry, I assumed ppl would be able to figure it out. My mistake!
Didn’t news anchor (deceased) Jessica Savitch allegedly send a lady into seizures years ago?
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