The fact that this exists annoys me to no end, but some of the examples actually make sense. For instance, censoring the word Vagina in iBooks: it's a body part and there's no reason to be ashamed of it, but couldn't Apple just be trying to keep the initial results G rated? The same with autocomplete in search engines. Like the source said, it's not like the content is being blocked. Facebook has always been tyrannical with content, though, and there's no excuse for that.

Read the Wikipedia page. It sounds interesting. It seems like a lot of people dismissed the book, but then they would, wouldn't they? I don't know if this was a sarcastic comment or not, but I'm actually going to check the book out, so thanks!

I'm sorry. Maybe I'm missing something. I mean, I know it wasn't the wisest area for it, but if the pathogens can't be released, or are at very low risk for doing so, what's the danger? I know if something is released it will spread extremely quickly, but if the proper precautions are taken, how would anything be released? Are they less capable of keeping pathogens in than they're claiming?

The scientists owe it to the people there to reduce the risk of an escaped pathogen by as much as they can. Once they do that, there really shouldn't be anything to complain about--it would just be pure, irrational fear from what I can see.

There's not really enough information yet to tell if this is a good idea, at least to me. It would be nice if it happened, since you're paying ~$1000 basically for an operating system, since the hardware is more or less what you'd find in a good PC. But how will this effect performance?