CDC data are disappearing

I disagree. This is the government deciding what the government will or won't take a position on.

Censorship was having federal government employees scream and yell at facebook content moderation teams to remove social media posts.

The government can decide that but going back and scrubbing data taxpayers already funded is unacceptable. It draws comparisons to book burning.

I get why they did it, but agree that flies in the face of how the first amendment is viewed by SCOTUS.

The sad thing is, there is precedent how the government could handle the situation. You still cannot say "shit" on broadcast TV.

To you "screaming and yelling" at a private company that still retains agency over it's content moderation is government censorship, but the government's direct censoring of information is not? Partisan politics has a neat way of twisting one's brain up like a pretzel.