If someone is to cut him off and not let it happen, it's the job of the production crew. The job of the casters is to try to keep things entertaining and on the rails when the camera's live on them. It's not fair to punish casters for improvising a response.
Nah that's wrong. Have you watched the live feed video?
Here's a translation of what was said by the casters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/dfs7a...
So many mistruths being spread and believed as facts, it's sad really.
I'm saying that the casters didn't know before the interview started that Blitzchung would wear a gas mask to it.
You're saying that during the interview they encouraged him. That's true. But a caster doesn't have many other options at that point, their main job is to keep things genial and entertaining. They are not the production team, who could have cut away from the interview at any time -- even before the casters started responding. The blame goes to production.
Blitzchung got a worse punishment than people who got caught cheating at Blizzard games. I think that says a lot about where their priorities are.
Based on past events (even Blizzard's own presentations at Blizzcon) it's already clear that the rule against offending people is being selectively enforced.
Edit: And I'm presuming it's being selectively enforced based on who is offended by a statement.
This is a very generous (towards Blizzard) interpretation. The rules weren't "no politics". The rules were a generic "don't piss us off or do anything we may find objectionable", basically.
Per the Verge, 'The rule in question forbids players from doing anything that “brings [them] into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages [Blizzard’s] image.”'
It's designed to be arbitrary, because if you were to strictly enforce it anyone would violate it simply by existing nowadays.
It included we will defend the honor of the nation, making it clear exactly what he did wrong.
If blizzard thinks that they said something wrong, then the burden is on blizzard to correct the matter.
Really? Like...that's a thing you honestly can imagine?
What we can say is that the operator of Blizzard games in China, Net Ease, while posting about this incident under a Blizzard branded account, said that they would protect and defend the pride of China. Blizzard has not distanced themselves from this statement, "clarified" it, or done anything whatsoever to indicate that this stance is not the truth.
When someone you have authorized to represent you is making a statement in your name, it will be taken as being endorsed, unless you state otherwise.
They did this in order to try and maintain access to Chinese markets, probably assuming that the US market wouldn't care.