Hmmm, so exactly the thing that so many people said would happen has happened? Surely not! CoCs are not laws. The purpose of laws is to define what is allowed

Hmmm, so exactly the thing that so many people said would happen has happened? Surely not! CoCs are not laws. The purpose of laws is to define what is allowed by what is explicitly prohibited and by these being all that is prohibited. CoCs on the other hand are an ill-defined subset of what is prohibited that is selectively enforced for political goals. They do not bring any of the benefits of codified laws. They do not clarify what is and isn't allowed since they are so general that none of those who wouldn't grasp these rules intuitively would grasp them after reading a CoC. I see no value added by CoCs, only potential for abuse.