US man held for sending flashing tweet to epileptic writer

[dixiegrrrrl]

Two things:

1. Mr. Eichenwald is a very good writer, the movie The Informant was based on his book.

2. There is a still pic. of the gif that was sent to him, at the link.

John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland, sent Kurt Eichenwald an animated image with a flashing light on Twitter in December, causing the seizure.
He has been charged with criminal cyber stalking and could face a 10-year sentence, the New York Times reports.
Mr Eichenwald is known to have epilepsy. He is a senior writer at Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a best-selling author of books including The Informant.
Investigators found that Mr Rivello had sent messages to other Twitter users about Mr Eichenwald and a plan to attack him virtually, including one that read: "I hope this sends him into a seizure".

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39315393?ocid=socialflow_twitter

[Princess Turandot]

1. That's very good news. I guess that BBC didn't want to assume a motive for this cretin...

but it is, of course, the fact that Eichenwald has written numerous articles for Newsweek exposing bad things about Trump. He has also been very critical of Trump on Twitter, and has had all kinds vile things thrown his way there as a result, including threats against his family, iirc.

[Cicada]

2. He should be charged with attempted murder

The sender mentioned the target might die and the day after he altered Wikipedia to say he had died of the seizure. Wishful thinking which warrants an attempted murder charge too.