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Tooluka on Feb 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing

Governments are just scared to even slightly question their own actions. If some laws from 1952 were inhuman and oppressive, then what chance of some of the current laws being the same? No way they are going to diminish their power. Never.

mooism2 on Feb 6, 2012 [–]

Then why did the government posthumously apologise to Turing, describing his treatment as "horrifying" and "utterly unfair"?

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