I'd love to read the piece to make my own mind up about its tone, but it's locked to members only. 

Regardless, this concept you seem to hold, that editors void their free expression the minute they become editors, seems a little suspect to me. We have a long cultural tradition of editorial writing, at least in the newspaper world, where editors get dedicated pages to spout their opinions, and many collected works feature extensive forewords by the editor. 

In my opinion, FAR too many people actively seek out justifications for why they should be allowed to limit expression, and one of their favourite tactics is the 'other hat', where they use a position as the excuse.  Oh, you'd NORMALLY get free expression, but as an 'x', you don't. We all wear multiple hats, so this tactic always has some angle through which to nail down expression. The onus should be on censors to prove why they have the right to censor, and it should be more difficult than 'you have this job'.