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I'm not sure he "openly stated that he intended to cause a seizure". The image itself says something like "You deserve a seizure" but that image has been around for years - this person did not create that image.
The police found a direct message from the Twitter account stating "I hope this sends him into a seizure" and "I know he has epilepsy"
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Yeah, if you try to _literally kill someone over the internet_ and you think any lawful company is going to fight a warrant for your data, you've got another thing coming.
It feels like people still minimize pretty awful actions when they happen over the internet. Imagine someone running up to someone with epilepsy in public and showing them strobes? What sort of deranged person does that? Imagine someone sending death threats through snail mail over and over. Of course that's horrific! But brigaders doing it through twitter is kinda fine because "hey, you're on twitter, stupid stuff h…
Are we going to throw 5 year olds in jail when they tell an adult male they hope they die? No, we're going to apply the same level of doctrine, how likely is it that the 5 year old can carry through with the threat?
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> 10 year old > mining in the very early days of Bitcoin So junior was mining at what, age 3? Smart kid.
If I were 10 years old and I had Bitcoins to spend, I sure as hell wouldn't use them "to purchase a black hat SEO campaign". What 10 year old kid would?
You're an insane person and I regret engaging with you.
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Yeah, makes sense. Bookmark == pointer to bytes, Screenshot == bytes. If the bytes could save someone's life (or N doctor visits, or even 5 saved minutes), quite worthwhile to keep a copy. Same principal as pinboard.in's archiving, except comes stock on nearly every phone.
Interesting, though, because screenshots aren't searchable.
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That quote sounds like common smack-talk rather than a genuine statement of intent. I think you could hang "intent to do the victim harm" on the combination of that and the actions here. But, actual intent to cause death? I'd want to see much more than mention of dying - "do that and I'll kill you" or "I hope you die", or similar, must have been said a trillion times in situations where actual death was _not_ intende…
12 angry men.
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Yeah, I found that I was doing this myself. I think it's because I was always posing myself the what-ifs of "well, you could just be accidentally sending something that would trigger it...", but the law can deal with intent where most software and programing problems simply can't. Where it is clear the intent was to cause harm, we should absolutely treat these things with as much seriousness as any other attempt to h…
> but the law can deal with intent How do you come to this conclusion?