Huh? China abducts and disappears human rights lawyers, activists, and sellers of banned books, to ensure that ideas are disappeared from the public sphere. You seem to be suggesting that that is one in the same as moderation and there's no distinction to be drawn.

If there's no distinction to be drawn because you're asserting that moderation means that something different in China, I think that is you rather than the author that's using terms in non-standard ways.