(((Kurt))) claims FBI arrested man who posted "You deserve a seizure" meme at him on Twitter -

[Null]

If you're wondering what a military, authoritarian police looks like, this is it.

 

[Null]

Can confirm.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crim...alist-kurt-eichenwald-tweet-triggered-seizure
https://archive.md/QtSe3

Fuck these people.

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

Also, if you guys are wondering (Like I was) if he actually does have epilepsy, he does:

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/11/magazine/braving-epilepsy-s-storm.html

The TL;DR of it is that's an article (((Kurt))) has written about his own battles with epilepsy. While I'm not going to stand up and defend this fucker, that image may actually have given him an honest to God seizure.

 

[zedkissed60]

Can confirm.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crim...alist-kurt-eichenwald-tweet-triggered-seizure
https://archive.md/QtSe3

Fuck these people.

"The agency announced that John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Salisbury, Md., was arrested Friday morning in Maryland on a cyberstalking charge."

Dox
John Rayne Rivello
1808 E Clear Lake Dr
Salisbury MD 21804-1972
DOB August 5, 1987 (age 29)

John's father, David, is a retired DEA Special Agent.
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usa...hersforTheirContributionstoWicomicoExile.html

 

[HG 400]

http://heavy.com/news/2017/03/john-...-gif-suspect-who-age-job-bio-photos-maryland/

 

[Curt Sibling]

"People" like this spazi-nazi clown Eichenwank give the pigs all the excuses they need to roll out the draconian policing.

 

[Mrs Paul]

Dude may be a dick, but trying to give someone a seizure is seriously fucked up. If someone had done that to me, (which wouldn't have succeeded, since I don't have photo-sensitive epilepsy), I'd go and beat the living shit out of the motherfucker. Seizures fucking SUCK.

(Note: this is NOT a defense of Eichenwald.)

 

[Cato]

I don't know enough about Eichenwald to provide any commentary about whether he's a piece of shit or deserves some form of abuse.

Speaking more broadly though, it's not at all unreasonable that intentionally sending seizure-inducing material to someone one knows to have photosensitive epilepsy would be considered a criminal offense. Calling this "authoritarian" is moronic.

 

[Sergeant Politeness]

Speaking more broadly though, it's not at all unreasonable that intentionally sending seizure-inducing material to someone one knows to have photosensitive epilepsy would be considered a criminal offense. Calling this "authoritarian" is moronic.

I think it's a little overkill to get the FBI involved over it, though.

This part annoyed me though:

"What Mr. Rivello did with his Twitter message was no different from someone sending a bomb in the mail or sending an envelope filled with anthrax spores."

I fail to see the comparison. One's a fucking bomb, one's a deadly toxin, the other is a flashing GIF. Could it kill someone? I guess, but they're certainly not on the same level. Like, at all.

 

[Cato]

I think it's a little overkill to get the FBI involved over it, though.

I'm not American so I'm not entirely sure if this is the case, but my assumption was that the FBI was involved not due to any question of degree of severity, but because it was a cybercrime that crossed state lines and thus warranted federal jurisdiction. I'm open to correction.

I fail to see the comparison. One's a fucking bomb, one's a deadly toxin, the other is a flashing GIF. Could it kill someone? I guess, but they're certainly not on the same level. Like, at all.

Yes, that's a dumb and hyperbolic analogy that actual makes what happened in this case seem less serious by comparison. But it's Eichenwald's lawyer that said that; his job is to advocate for him (and I think he did a poor job of it given that, like I said, it's a bad comparison...but my point is, of course he'll try to "sell" this).

But a stupid comparison doesn't undermine the point that there are still valid and readily apparent reasons this kind of behaviour would be criminalized. There are also differences in severity between assault and murder but the former is still a crime and should be.

Also from the article:

According to a criminal complaint, messages sent from Rivello's Twitter account mentioned Eichenwald, saying "I know he has epilepsy," "I hope this sends him into a seizure" and "let's see if he dies."

This guy definitely made the investigators' and prosecutors' jobs easy and presented a great argument for precisely why he's been charged.

 

[Michel]

I think it's a little overkill to get the FBI involved over it, though.

This part annoyed me though:

I fail to see the comparison. One's a fucking bomb, one's a deadly toxin, the other is a flashing GIF. Could it kill someone? I guess, but they're certainly not on the same level. Like, at all.

The point is that it's still malicious.

 

[DuskEngine]

i love US politics

 

[ICametoLurk]

"What Mr. Rivello did with his Twitter message was no different from someone sending a bomb in the mail"

The Unibomber could have saved some time sending .gifs instead of mailing bombs.

 

[DuskEngine]

The Unibomber could have saved some time sending .gifs instead of mailing bombs.

This is also basically the plot of Snow Crash

 

[Ravenor]

This is a really shitty thing to do, even if you don't like the person in question knowingly sending someone a .gif likely to cause a seasure who has epilepsy is taking things to far, this isn't like blasting pictures of holes or something to someone on Tumblr who claims to have a fear of them because it's got a cool sounding name, etc it's fucking with a serious medical condition that could have consequences reaching far beyond what you intended, hell there is warnings on films and tv for people with this condition for just this fucking reason.

What a cunt.

 

[AnOminous]

I hope this asshole is forced to prove this shit actually even happened.

Because I doubt he can.

If you or I, even if we actually had epilepsy, got spammed with strobing gifs or such bullshit, guess what the FBI would do when we filed a complaint about it?

If you guessed NOTHING, you'd be entirely correct. This is also what the FBI would do if our site got DDoSed by flat out fucking terrorists, angry child molesters, and all the other scum who have committed literal crimes against us.

This prosecution is because the fake victim is in a privileged class, the media. He gets to make up lies about having seizures because he's upset about looking like an idiot on Tucker Carlson's show.

There.

If he had a seizure, it was from getting his ass handed to him by Tucker Carlson.

IMO his claim of having a seizure from some gif is bullshit, and I've seen similar attention whores pull this stunt, and the tweet after his supposed seizure is exactly what a faker would tell his SO to do after making up some bullshit.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

If someone had done that to me, (which wouldn't have succeeded, since I don't have photo-sensitive epilepsy), I'd go and beat the living shit out of the motherfucker.

No you wouldn't, get over yourself.

Delete the pictures and block the people sending you that shit. Done. You don't have to open the GIF. If you open them accidentally, fucking look away or close your eyes. I really doubt that the seizure hits instantly as soon as you see the first half-second of a flashing GIF.

This is ridiculous.

 

[Jason Genova]

If someone had done that to me I'd go and beat the living shit out of the motherfucker.

Spoiler

Female, 38

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

 

[Julius Evola]

How is (((Eichenwald))) going to prove he had a seizure in court? He was crowing about this from the moment it supposedly happened, but I haven't seen anything about him calling EMS, visiting the hospital, seeing a doctor, or anything like that. All he has is his wife as a witness (supposedly) and some twitter posts. It's literally his word against the accused unless there are tweets about hospitals or something that I missed.

It is also my understanding that unless you fall and injure yourself or something there really isn't any evidence of a seizure having occurred unless you get a brain scan or w/e right after the fact.

I doubt that's enough to convict anyone of a crime.