Unicode = a standard. Specific software = *implementations* of Unicode. Totally fine for implementation developers to say "we choose to not support rendering certain character combinations." Problem solved!
Let's say you special-case disable 
+ ⃠ = ⃠ . Then what about + ⃝ + ⃥ = ⃝⃥ ? Or ⃫⃥ ?
This is an endless slippery slope. Unicode is vast, someone will always be able to come up with a hateful combination of codepoints. We can't fix people with software.
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"If it's not perfect, it's not effective" is a false premise China's 'great firewall' isn't 100% perfect; one can get around it with niche VPNs. But it's a chore, so the vast majority of people don't bother. That's enough to ensure >95% of netizens see nothing about 1989-06-04
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China's 'great firewall' is a totalitarian control device and has many, many false positives and side effects. I'm sorry, but if you're going to use the GFW to argue for attempting to control hate via font rendering hacks, you've already lost the argument.
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