Today, British PM Gordon Brown issued a fully open and public apology for the treatment of Alan Turing, whom his own government betrayed and drove to suicide far before most of us were ever born. Regardless of the timeframe, Turing played a part in all our lives today through his work with early computers and cryptography, and this apology is long overdue.

That being said, it’s also rare, and I don’t think too much ill should be spoken of those at Downing St. who actually had the moral fortitude to push this through and actually carry it out. It’s not often that one of our advanced nations’ governments will commit to such an act of morality. Kudo’s go to them for this, even if it did take 30,000 signatures to make it happen.

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