TAIPEI, Taiwan—More than a year after two amateur computer coders were taken by police from their Beijing homes, they are set to be tried Tuesday in a case that illustrates the Chinese regime’s growing online censorship and heightened sensitivity to any deviation from the official narrative on its COVID-19 response. Authorities have not said specifically why Chen Mei, 28, and Cai Wei, 27, were arrested in April last year, so friends and relatives can only guess. They believe it was because the two men had set up an online archive to store articles deleted by censors and a related forum where users could skirt real-name registration requirements to chat anonymously. Started in 2018, the archive kept hundreds of censored articles and the forum saw discussions on sensitive issues including the protests in Hong Kong and complaints about the ruling Communist Party. But what got them in trouble with authorities appears to …