Those are claims you made, not me. The onus is on you to connect the logic. I'm honestly confused why you would even bring up masks or China unless you're just trying to stir the shitpot, but I'm more than happy to leave it to the mods here to decide if you are trolling, shitposting, or rage baiting.
Because the concept of freedom of speech can ONLY apply to the government. /s
I'm not even a free speech absolutist, but when someone is going to claim that my speech is violence and that I should be removed because calling someone bad is immoral... you can bet your bottom dollar that I'm going to speak up. What it comes down to is that none of these changes are substantiated by anything, it's just morality policing people based off ideology. The primary argument for this kind of policy Blizzard implemented is that some speech is harmful and therefore the freedom of speech must be limited, and you can see that clearly reflected in the arguments of most people protecting this policy.
I don't fully agree with that argument, nor with the assumption that all "harm" is bad. The whole reason I speak up about this, if you look back at my posts through this thread, is that my belief is the protecting people from this potential harm is actually detrimental. Attempting to turn all of WoW into a safe space is absurd to me, and I have yet to hear a single argument that isn't an attempt at emotional manipulation or a dismissal (the "hurr, private companies can do what they want so fuck private individuals" stance) to justify it.