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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by ETHisso2017 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:23PM (#20854187)
> His work shortened the WW2 by atleast 2 years.

And was then pushed to suicide by the intelligence agencies of the country he saved hundreds of thousands of lives for.

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by pilsetnieks on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:23PM (#20854640)
No, it was just ordinary police and a court conviction that did that. The intelligence agencies likely knew about his orientation long before and did nothing about it - if anything, it was something that could be used to control him.
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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by gurumeditations on Sunday September 01, 2019 @03:25PM (#20854199)
For the crime of being gay.
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