ActivisionBlizzard is a horrible company as the recent lawsuits (plural) showcase but one interesting tidbit is that in March of this year they hired Frances Townsend to be executive vice president for corporate affairs, corporate secretary, and chief compliance officer so she is one of the main executives over there and it is odd for her to be working at a video game company considering she has no prior history of being involved in the industry.
Fran Townsend was former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush. She played a key role in covering up torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. She visited the prison site and claimed not to have seen anything wrong there.
However later when more evidence came forward that there was inhumane torture being done to prisoners there she defended the use of âenhanced interrogation techniquesâ and that federal agents should be free from public scrutiny.
Itâs hard to see a corporation as anything but evil when aside from overseeing years of abuse they hire former government employees who aided in war crimes. Townsend isnât even the only one at the company.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/americas/19iht-19home.8392947.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/06/19/bush-adviser-toured-abu-ghraib/c0f8485d-74e6-4445-9ec2-92f15938fc73/
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210302005420/en/Frances-F.-Townsend-Joins-Activision-Blizzard-as-Executive-Vice-President-for-Corporate-Affairs
https://www.pcgamer.com/au/defensive-activision-blizzard-executive-deletes-her-twitter-account/
