Alan Turing, British code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives pardon

[fauxparadiso]

Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II who was later subjected to chemical castration for homosexual activity, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.Turing was best known for developing the Bombe, a code-breaking machine that deciphered messages encoded by German machines. His work is considered by

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[ladypolitik]

...................How generous of them.

[clevermanka]

MTE.

[executivehpfan]

This whole thing is horrifying.

Not enough, needless to say.

[synekdokee]

Not that it affects the overall iffyness, but the suicide theory is more of a factoid.

[gildinwen]

Can't find the link right now but Brown's government *Did* apologise. They didn't clear the conviction, but Brown flat out admitted they were wrong to treat Turing that way.

[squidger]

Here's the text of it.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/07/complete-text-of-gordon-browns-apology.html

[blackjedii]

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so should I be going yay or....?