I can’t believe that you’re defending a powerful entity for using that immense power to intimidate a private citizen into shutting up. Since it’s legal, if you’re correct, does CNN just get to continue to threaten and intimidate people (little people of course, famous people have a little more recourse, though the left uses the power of shunning against famous conservatives) who express things which CNN opposes or resents? That is certainly one way to shut all of us up.
CNN crossed the line when Kaczynski published his statements regarding CNN reserving the right to reveal the person’s identity in the public domain.
Had they simply revealed this person’s identity without the coercive interaction they may have been able to get away with it, but alas, this is CNN. Their balls are bigger than their brains.