Fran Townsend was the person who did not take the Californian lawsuit filed against Activision Blizzard that kindly…

Townsend was on Twitter, which is reasonable, but she quickly gained the Internet ire, even though she hasn’t been at the publisher for long. She joined in March to be the executive vice president of corporate affairs. Previously, she worked under both the Clinton and the Bush administrations. In 2004, she was made Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism under Bush, becoming a key player in the War on Terror, particularly in intelligence.

Josh Allen, the community manager of World of Warcraft, alluded to Townsend’s history in the Bush administration on Twitter: “Fran deleting her Twitter over the Activision Blizzard situation but not the literal war crimes she previously defended is maybe the biggest indicator yet of how strong this movement is. We are loud, we are angry, and we are just getting started.”

Daniel Peterson, the user interface and the user experience designer of Overwatch in Activision Blizzard, went a step further: “You spent an hour directly hearing the gut-wrenching pain and anger of employees last week, and this is what you decide to amplify while vacationing in the Hamptons? You actively burned wonderful people who want safety and equity while demolishing trust in our company.” It was a reply to Townsend, who retweeted a The Atlantic article about… whistleblowing. Ouch.

It happened on the same day as Bobby Kotick publishing his first statement (calling Townsend’s response tone deaf), and let’s just say Townsend did not get kind treatment. Sure, she got seventeen retweets and seventy-eight likes… but having approximately sixteen hundred responses do say a lot.

But that’s not all: before deleting her account, Townsend also predicted that the withdrawal of the American troops from Afghanistan would end in tragedy and that Iran “needs to be held accountable” for reported abductions and assassinations of dissidents.

Source: PCGamer