Ethics

An Apology to Alan Turing

By Ed Brayton

Here's a worthy cause in Great Britain:

Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing.

Writer Ian McEwan has just backed the campaign, which already has the support of scientist Richard Dawkins.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 07, 2009 (boomark / email).