Alan Turing, eindelijk officieel eerherstel

[Havanna]

De oorlog met JAREN verkort dankzij het kraken van Enigma, de Duitse codes.
Veroordeeld omdat hij homo was ...

De Britse wiskundige Alan Turing is gisteren postuum in ere hersteld in verband met zijn veroordeling wegens ontucht in 1952. Turing, wereldvermaard vanwege onder meer zijn baanbrekende werk als grondlegger van de moderne computer, pleegde in 1954 op 41-jarige leeftijd zelfmoord.

Zijn veroordeling was tot stand gekomen op grond van de destijds geldende antihomowetgeving in Groot-Brittannië. Die zou pas in 1967 worden geschrapt. Turing raakte op grond van de veroordeling zijn baan kwijt en werd chemisch gecastreerd door injecties met vrouwelijke hormonen.

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/960/Buitenl...n-Turing.dhtml

[maddox]

Dat werd echt wel tijd.
Het staat op hetzelfde niveau als de toegeving van de Katholieke kerk dat de aarde in een baan rond de zon draait.

[praha]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door maddox

Dat werd echt wel tijd.
Het staat op hetzelfde niveau als de toegeving van de Katholieke kerk dat de aarde in een baan rond de zon draait.

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[Geert C]

Walgelijke beslissing.

[lombas]

Hij is er vet mee.

[Havanna]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Geert C

Walgelijke beslissing.

De gratie of het walgelijk vonnis?

Glyn Hughes, the sculptor of the Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester, said it was "very gratifying" that he had finally been pardoned.
"When we set out to try and make him famous - get him recognised - it was really difficult to collect money," he said.
None of the big computer companies would stump up a penny for a memorial. They perhaps would now - we've come a very long way."

ut he said he was "not entirely comfortable" that Turing had been pardoned while thousands of other gay men had not.

"The problem is, of course, if there was a general pardon for men who had been prosecuted for homosexuality, many of them are still alive and they could get compensation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25495315

[Geert C]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Havanna

De gratie of het walgelijk vonnis?

De gratie.

Turing was certainly an exceptional man but the tribute could not be less fitting. It says that the British state is prepared to forgive historical homosexual acts providing they were performed by a national hero, academic giant or world-changing innovator. This is the polar opposite of the correct message. Turing should be forgiven not because he was a modern legend, but because he did absolutely nothing wrong. The only wrong was the venality of the law. It was wrong when it was used against Oscar Wilde, it was wrong when it was used against Turing and it was wrong when it was used against an estimated 75,000 other men, whether they were famous playwrights and scientists or squaddies, plumbers or office clerks. Each of those men was just as unfairly persecuted, and many suffered similarly awful fates. To single out Turing is to say these men are less deserving of justice because they were somehow less exceptional. That cannot be right.

Alan Turing's pardon is wrong (The Guardian)

if there was a general pardon for men who had been prosecuted for homosexuality, many of them are still alive and they could get compensation

Tja, punten scoren op de rug van een dode nationale held is gemakkelijker dan iets doen voor de slachtoffers van die wet die nog in leven zijn...

[lombas]

The Guardian...

[Koenraad Noël]

Politieke recuperatie.