It just seems like finally there is some understanding of like the things that we love that we use in our times of leisure are also products of labor.

So the people that make them need protections as well.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Gita Jackson.

Gita is a staff writer at Motherboard, which is Vice's Tech Vertical, where they write about culture, film, and of course, the games industry. And that will be the focus

of our conversation today. You might have noticed that Activision Blizzard, the maker of Call of Duty,

World of Warcraft, and a number of major franchises, has been in the news lately, not just because

the new Call of Duty game was released last month. But since July, stories have been coming out about

the treatment of workers

at Activision Blizzard, and in particular, the women and women of color who are at that company,

have they been subjected to sexual harassment, discrimination, and a general frat boy culture,

as the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing called it when they sued the company

in July. Now, I'm not going it when they sued the company in July.

Now, I'm not going to go into all the details in the introduction because we discussed that in the

interview. And I will just say, you know, be ready for some pretty serious things that are being

discussed because what has been going on at this company is absolutely outrageous and should

not be happening at any workplace. Notably, in response to these revelations

and to the information that the CEO of the company not only has known about this, but has

personally settled sexual harassment lawsuits, even after saying that he knew nothing about

it when the original details came out in July, workers at the company have understandably

not only walked out and

begun to organize, but recently launched a strike fund, began a strike, and are passing around union

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