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by Tinkerbell on August 31st, 2009

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Would you agree with this call for the UK government to apologise (posthumously) to Alan Turing (code-breaker extraordinaire, mathematician and 'father' of computer science) for the manner in which they treated a true genius of the 20th Century?

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  • by HasntBeen on August 31st, 2009

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    Yes, of course. What happened to Turing was tragic, and a graphic example of the consequences of homophobia. When such nonsense is institutionalized as public policy, the government creates a long, wide mess that takes years to clean up. There's no justification for failing to do so.

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    • Thanks, I agree completely. He has been more or less airbrushed out of history and it is a damned travesty. I think the tide is beginning to turn now thankfully. Still a long way to go though. We have a statue to him in Manchester and if I remember correctly not one major IT firm paid a penny towards it. Disgusting.

      Hopefully lessons will be learned. :)

      Tinkerbell

      by Tinkerbell on August 31st, 2009

    • Interesting you brought this up. I was arguing with a religious homophobe the other day and mentioned the Turing case as an example of what happens when ancient prejudice isn't purged from a culture. Of course, that didn't even get a response, the train was already locked onto its tracks :)

      HasntBeen

      by HasntBeen on August 31st, 2009

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