Help Wanted to Expand Free Speech Globally

There's a very worthwhile project posted on Dan Gillmor's blog:

A group that wants to assist free speech in authoritarian nations is looking for a technically savvy person -- a CTO or lead engineer type -- who can do a short term study, possibly leading to a longer-term job. This is a paying gig for the right person.

The project is intended, in its initial form, to make possible blogging that is impossible (or at least extremely difficult) to trace. One of the people involved calls it an "anonymous, anti-tyranny blogging service." If you're interested, please send e-mail to Jim Hake at jim@spiritofamerica.net.

Anonymous blogging has tremendous implications for social justice, and it should be fervently pursued. The persecuted church could really use a tool like this. Granted, it would only be effective in areas with appropriate internet access.

Alas, the resulting (or similar) technology will also be used to oppress. Terrorists will love it. So will sex slave traders, pedophiles and pornographers. I can feel the debate coming.