Emmanuel Goldstein (Eric Corley)
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The editor of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly since 1984, host of the radio programme Off The Hook, and founder of the HOPE conferences - the closest thing the American underground has to a permanent institution, named for Orwell's fictional dissident.
2600 published what the mainstream press would not, organised the monthly Friday meetings that gave isolated teenagers a physical community in dozens of cities, and paid for its principles in court: the magazine was sued by the film industry for linking to DeCSS, losing a landmark case on whether a hyperlink is speech. Corley's constant argument across four decades is that the right to understand technology is not conditional on permission from its owners.
Also known as: eric corley, 2600 editor, off the hook, hope conference