Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures
After complaints from UK charity Epilepsy Action, Twitter pulled after less than a day two ads that the group said might cause epileptic seizures. The in-house ads, in the 6-second format of Twitter-owned Vine, consisted of flashing video which the Epilepsy Action said "was dangerous, as it could potentially produce seizures in people who have photo-sensitive epilepsy."
Good thing happens..
Boring news..
It certainly makes sense for Twitter to pull an ad as they are partially responsible for them.
On the other hand it does bring up interesting questions of videos on say youtube or vimeo or facebook or gifs on vine that could cause epilepsy. Is there any responsibility for posting such videos?
Its full of flashing graphics. I mean just the pages loading in has flashing graphics. Images aren't there... then they are... the page realigns when graphics load in above or below... additional scripts load that change formating.
If I had photo sensitive epilepsy... I'd need a bib just to use the internet... I'd be foaming all over myself.
At a bear minimum, I would think I'd just have adblock enabled when I used the internet... because... photo sensitive epilepsy. I'm pretty sure I'd still need a bib.
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is good for your health.
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It's nice to have a medical reason to have wildly flashing and distracting ads pulled. Beceuase being an obnoxious distraction making it impossible to focus on the content is not enough when money is at stake.
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Yes it is horrible if you are afflicted with this sensitivity but I am really wondering why it is ONLY on UK TV that you are warned about an upcoming item with 'flash photography'.
Is this sensitivity outside of the UK so rare as to not be a concern?
Or do the sufferers in other countries just turn away their eyes when they notice the offending picture?
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
Consider what other posters have written about the trigger instead of assuming any flashing does it.
In 2002/2003 BMW ran some advertising on Reuters.com that had an animated swirling pattern at the start. This triggered an epileptic attack in one of our users so I reported it to Reuters and they pulled the ad damn quick. Someone from Reuters even phoned us later on to make sure that the guy was OK.
People DO care about this stuff but the advertisers don't realise that their latest flash creation might have problems with a small subset of the population.
I don't have epilepsy, but still the flashing animations or music videos which alternate black and white screens are very annoying. They should really be banned for good. Whoever creates such videos for consumption of large number of people should consider it 2nd time before posting their video. Same problem is with discos and restaurants that use flickering or blinking lights synced to the music.
First of all, ANY reason to get constantly flashing ads banned from the internet is a GOOD reason.
Secondly, it's just other kinds of offending pictures that other countries' citizens could learn to look away from rather than flying into a rage and trying to have them banned.
Yes, I'm talking about the religious fanatics here. You pick which religion.
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Headline: Twitter does very easy completely non-contentious thing that obviously they should do. Why is this worthy of a post?
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(see: This page
In the UK we have specific rules about this for broadcast TV (from OFCOM document ): http://stakeholders.ofcom.org....
A potentially harmful flash occurs when there is a pair of opposing changes in luminance (i.e., an increase in luminance followed by a decrease, or a decrease followed by an increase) of 20 candelas per square metre (cd.m-2) or more (see notes 1 and 2). This applies only when the screen luminance of the darker image is below 160 cd.m-2. Irrespective of luminance, a transition to or from a saturated red is also potentially harmful. 3.1.1. Isolated single, double, or triple flashes are acceptable, but a sequence of flashes is not permitted when both the following occur: i. the combined area of flashes occurring concurrently occupies more than one quarter of the displayed (see note 3) screen area; and ii. there are more than three flashes within any one-second period. For clarification, successive flashes for which the leading edges are separated by 9 frames or more are acceptable, irrespective of their brightness or screen area.
Nanny state or not, it makes no sense to have a set of rules for one screen and not another, within a household.
"Warning: This ad may contain peanuts!!!"
Why worry about about epileptic people when you have the chance to annoy millions?
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USA Network Online has one extremely loud commercial, for Polar Pops, that can damage your hearing if you are watching with a headset adjusted for the normal volume range of the program. Mr Robot, meet Mr Deaf Viewer.
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