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Tweet with flashing images sent to epileptic writer

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The message, sent from an account which has since been suspended said: "you deserve a seizure for your posts".

Shortly afterwards, Mr Eichenwald's wife tweeted from his account saying the images had caused a seizure.

The incident was reported to the police in the US.

Mr Eichenwald had previously written about how he had been "assaulted" via the internet.

He confirmed in a series of tweets that he is pursuing legal action against the person responsible for this latest incident.

"Last night, for the second time, a deplorable aware I have epilepsy tweeted a strobe at me... It worked," he said.

"This is not going to happen again. My wife is terrified. I am... disgusted. All I will be tweeting for the next few days are copies of documents from the litigation, police reports etc.

"Once we have the lawsuit filed, we will be subpoenaing Twitter for the identity of the individual who engaged in this cross-state assault," he added.
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I know that a lot of people, especially Trump supporters, don't like Eichenwald. That's OK. Feel free to tweet that he is a scumbag. That's the way the First Amendment works. But sending him a strobe gif, knowing that it might trigger an epileptic attack, is beyond reprehensible. I hope that, not only does the asshole who did this end up in jail, I hope the civil lawsuit takes every dime he has, and that he also ends up unemployable, and eventually homeless. There was absolutely no excuse for this attack, which was clearly intended to cause physical harm.

Tweet with flashing images sent to epileptic writer - BBC News
 
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danarhea said:
I know that a lot of people, especially Trump supporters don't like Eichenwald. That's OK. Feel free to tweet that he is a scumbag. That's the way the First Amendment works. But sending him a strobe gif, knowing that it might trigger an epileptic attack, is beyond reprehensible. I hope that, not only does the asshole who did this end up in jail, I hope the civil lawsuit takes every dime he has, and that he also ends up unemployable. There was absolutely no excuse for this attack, which was clearly indended to cause physical harm.

Tweet with flashing images sent to epileptic writer - BBC News
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That's unbelievably ****ed up.
 
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