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, Lieberman says. It wasnt the content of the communication that was intended to persuade somebody or make them feel badly about themselves; this was an electronic communication that was designed to have a physical effect.
On December 15, hours after Eichenwald appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight, the Twitter user @jew_goldstein tweeted a strobing image to the writer that allegedly said, You deserve a seizure. Later that night, in a reply to @jew_goldstein, a post appeared on the Eichenwalds Twitter feed that said, This is his wife, you caused a seizure. I have your information and have called the police to report the assault.
The next day, Eichenwald tweeted that he would be working with lawyers and law enforcement. 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, he wrote. It worked. This is not going to happen again. My wife is terrified. I am...disgusted.
Eichenwald had previously written for Newsweek about his being epileptic and about how another person had sent him a strobing message. That attack did not cause a seizure
