I am Cyrus Sullivan, owner of Sullivan Business Technology which owns and operates this website STD Carriers Disease Control and Prevention Services. This was the first website I ever built after earning my B.S. in Business with a concentration in information systems and operations management from the University of Oregon. It should have been the time of my life living in Eugene with plenty of extra cash to blow around graduation and through the summer, but I ended up getting some bad news from a girl who told me that she had Herpes and knew about it before meeting me. I immediately terminated the relationship and got tested just in case thinking I would be just fine, but ended up testing positive shortly before graduation. Needless to say it put a damper on the culmination of years of hard work and I was not happy.
I spent the next couple weeks hanging out with friends who helped me have a good time that would have been great otherwise, but I also started doing research about options to take against someone who had changed my life forever in a bad way. I also scheduled a meeting with an attorney who said that what she did was not a crime and that I could sue her in civil court for negligence, but she did not have financial resources worth paying his legal fees.
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Eventually I went online looking for a place to report people with incurable STDs who don’t tell their partners, but didn’t find anything and thought that there should be a way to publicly warn others about dishonest people who knowingly endanger the health of their partners. I had just taken a mixed senior/graduate level course in e-commerce in which my team helped a company build a new website for listing their products online and realized that I could build a site for posting people just as easily. To make sure my idea was legal I asked the same lawyer and he said that it was legal because of a document created over 200 years ago called the United States Constitution as long as I don’t personally post any information that is false or illegally obtained.
After a fun summer I moved to Portland, finished the site, and successfully promoted it in the press resulting in a CNN headline within the first month of launch. I got a lot of heat for it from people on comment boards the most critical of which accused me of violating privacy laws, being a vindictive person who was just out to get revenge, and a hypocrite who didn’t even list himself on his own site. The privacy critics were just ignorant users who didn’t have the time or the interest to do proper legal research to back up their comments. I knew I would look a little vindictive in the press, but the fact is that if all I wanted was revenge I could have gotten that with one web page and no reasonable person would go to the trouble of building an entire interactive service for people just to get revenge on one person. As for my so called hypocrisy nobody builds sites like this one to put themselves on, so of course I didn’t put myself on this site.
If I didn’t put myself on this site then what is this profile doing here? It was originally created by an end user after I publicly stated on a comment board that if anyone felt the need to list me I would not remove myself and I am a man of my word. It was in response to the first news story in which Anne Jaeger asked me why I was not on the list. I explained that the purpose of the list was to post warnings about dishonest STD Carriers who endanger people and as an honest carrier I didn’t feel that the need to warn people about myself, but if a viewer felt the need they could. KGW cut out my answer and ended the story by telling viewers the sole fact that I was not listed on the site with no explanation as to why. I knew it would probably be a negative story, but I never thought that KGW would go so far to minimize backlash from viewers that they would mislead the public by cutting out a pertinent fact that made a service created primarily to be used as a last resort warning system appear to be the work of a madman obsessed with outing every single person with an incurable STD.
I took over this report when implementing user registration in the spring of 2009 because I wanted to use this to tell my side of the story like I should have been able to in the first place. One of my friends criticized me for this saying that I should have just left it like the user made it and he might have a point, but it’s a perk of ownership that I don’t mind giving myself even though it seem like a double standard to me.
Learn More About Me:
SBT: Sullivan Business Technology
My Personal Site (Just for Fun): Cyrus Sullivan
About The Video (Below):
After over 2.5 years, countless news stories, and moving on to other things for the most part a local news station finally did a fair and balanced story about STD Carriers. The story was in response to a press release I issued regarding a hosting change with the hope that it would give me the opportunity to plug lesser known newer websites and it paid off better than I had hoped. I not only got to plug two new websites, but the story itself included an accurate legal analysis from a local lawyer explaining why my business is legal.
My business is legal because providing the public with a service they can use to publish information anonymously is protected by free speech laws and unlike many states Oregon law does not permit civil lawsuits in cases of private information being published that by itself is not considered newsworthy. Thank you Jessica Morkert for taking the time to understand the truth instead of just leaving it up to the viewers like some reporters do.
I can be contacted by mail at:
P.O. Box 86448
Portland, Oregon 97286
*Note that I do not accept certified mail.
You can leave me a message at:
(503) 567-1907