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This is the part I'm referring to. United States constitutional free speech. Sure the twitter thing is a debatable issue, but it's a side issue. That issue was not and is not protected by the constitution. You can argue that it should be all you want, but it currently isn't and therefore wasn't illegal.
The thing with the CDC is an actual violation of the constitution and a real life example of the government violating the rights it is supposed to be upholding.
You mentioned the word outcry in your first post. I therefore assume we are not discussing legality but the response of the US public. Which is not as much as you believe it should be.
The explanation is that the American public does not actually care for free speech as a human right that much. Your own dismissal of corporate censorship as not 'actual' censorship reinforces my point. It being illegal on it's own won't necessarily cause an outcry.
Especially when it's done to people that the American public has been propagandized to hate for decades. Ivory tower scientists, 'working' for the government like a commie instead of working for a corporation, like Tesla.