Activision Blizzard's Torture Apologist Executive Is Now Blocking Employees On Twitter

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That’s the title.

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Inb4 you get flagged for real life threats by silly people

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I mean the article is click bate.
Doesn’t actually say what the article suggests.

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What… is a Torture Apologist Executive? This sounds made up.

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Previously reported by Jason Schreier.

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Dang, I want to know what this said now :frowning:

Also, to OP; there was an interesting post linked in the Twitter chain that talked about other c-suite workers at Blizzard. None of them seem like people you’d want running a company, let alone a video game one. Brian Bulatao and Grant Dixton.

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The war criminal deserves all the ire she gets.

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Blizzard is showing how 4d chess is played.

The only way to destroy oneself is by thy own hands.

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Good ol Kotaku with their clickbait titles.

Which this time turns out to be accurate

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lmao.

I thought in her statement she said that employees should feel safe telling management how they feel.

I mean…I guess the employees are safe if all she’s doing is blocking them on Twitter. But, that wasn’t what I thought she meant. Silly me.

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I’ve never met a Troll I didn’t agree with and you Sir are Awesome! Have an excellent day for this.

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Here I’ll restore it. It wasn’t anything major. Just a “What is a Torture Apologist Executive? This sounds made up. Yep. I see now. Click-bait. Yeah nothing to see here. Deleted.”

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So much for responsible leadership.

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It’s because Frances Townsend, the executive who wrote that initial Activision-Blizzard response to the lawsuit that even Kotick (Activision Blizzard CEO) thought was tone deaf, is a former Bush era Homeland Security and counter terrorism advisor.

I’ve been looking for explicit cases of her advocating for torture, but my mobile google-fu is lacking and honestly, I know Bush era (lets be real all eras post 9/11) Homeland Security efforts aren’t exactly known for being super ethical.

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Torture apologist executive? No wonder I was so miserable playing shadowlands. Wtf, did she design the maw?

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Whats everyones bets on how long it will take before she becomes a sacrificial lamb?

I give it 3 more weeks.

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Click-baity but accurate.

Fran Townsend was a torture apologist under George W. Bush, and now she’s blocking the very women she’s supposed to be helping.

At this point, I’m expecting her resignation or for Bobby Kotick to fire her.

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Straight out of the article:

"Townsend later went onto defend the Bush administration’s use of torture, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and forced nudity. “Regardless of what you think on the issue of whether or not waterboarding is torture, there were legal documents created and relied upon by career intelligence officials who then implemented the program,” she said during a 2009 interview with CNN after the Obama administration declassified Bush-era memos making the legal case for the CIA’s use of torture. “There were very strict controls on the program. These people relied on them and, now, to release them and to subject these people, these career professionals to a sort of public humiliation and opprobrium and then the potential of a congressional investigation really will make our intelligence community risk-averse.”

Seems legit to label her as a torture apologist - at least under those circumstances. But the article headline is clearly clickbait as those statements have nothing at all to do with Activision’s situation.

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She at another point also stated “The US does not engage in torture.” but anybody who has heard of Guantanamo Bay or “GitMo” for short knows that’s a blatant lie.

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