&gt;However, if a forum claims to be &quot;open&quot; and &quot;inclusive&quot; but then censors people, that&#x27;s just hypocritical and wrong.<p>I just dont think the trending stories ever made an emphatic claim to be open and inclusive, nor is promoting some stories artificially the equivalent to &quot;censorship.&quot;  Not allowing stories in the timeline is completely different than manually choosing the trending stories for a day.<p>Facebook has always been pro censorship.  No nipples, no porn.  I dont think of facebook as a place for free speech, and I never felt as if the trending stories was some organic popular list.  I know everything on facebook is specifically chosen to get ME to click.<p>That said, watching the watchers is easy if sites publish transparency reports and publish &quot;stories we didnt cover.&quot;  Problem solved.