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Word: planetout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1999-1999
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...knowing that giving up the identities of pseudonymous SFM4M visitors would have been PR poison for a sizable chunk of its customers, declined to lift its curtain of privacy for the prying eyes of concerned officials. So Klausner got San Francisco-based PlanetOut, an online service for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, to help him pepper SFM4M with warning messages about avoiding the disease (condoms, monogamy and penicillin?). Syphilis is easily treated if caught early, but if left alone, it causes chancres and lesions and eventually leads to insanity and death ? all the while increasing vulnerability to other STDs, most notably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Chat Room Didn't Just Spread the Word | 8/24/1999 | See Source »

...testified that he fears prosecution runs the Sexual Health Network, which provides information about sexuality to the disabled. And the credit-card and age-verification defenses go only so far. Both are costly to implement--beyond the budget of many websites--and strip away visitors' anonymity. The founder of PlanetOut, a site directed at gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people, said traffic would plunge if users had to identify themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberspeech on Trial | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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