links for 2008-08-05 [delicious.com]

• Monroe Price: How to Read the Great Olympics Internet Censorship Drama
  "The Olympics will go on and sports will take over. But the nature of the weather and the extent of Internet openness will continue to be subjects of discussion in the days ahead."
  (tags: olympics china internet chineseinternetresearch censorship freespeech)
• Web Filtering Moves to the Cloud - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
  "the cloud-based service, which is rented to companies by the month, acts like a Web proxy, intercepting all incoming and outbound HTTP traffic from employees and scrubbing it for malware and online activity that violates company policy."
  (tags: censorship internet web2.0)