Newgon

Newgon is a pro-contact MAP organization that calls itself an information center for the MAP Movement. Its website is a MediaWiki-based site archiving talking points and arguments for pro-contact MAPs.

History
Newgon started in 2007 after Google started censorship of small blogging sites.

In 2014 the site was disabled, with the ISP requesting the administrator for contact. Soon the sites domain expired and the site went fully offline.

In 2021 Newgon returned, relaunching by "previous associates of Newgon.com and its network of activists." Several Newgon activists made Twitter accounts posing as researchers of sexuality.

In 2022 an official Newgon Twitter account appeared.

Political Stances
Newgon is known for its extreme viewpoints, suggesting anti-contact people are "sex fascists", controlling the contact stance of major governments, as well as "Social Justice Warriors/SJWs" (they resort to "triggered feminist" memes to illustrate this point ). They also seem to support the transphobic idea that the LGBT community forces gay youth to transition, use antisemitic caricatures and body-shaming to prove their point.

Exaggerating Own Importance
Newgon recently has attempted to join the modern MAP community and MAP activism. In this, they made false claims about the MAP community and their own role in its history.

"Founded in 2007, as the information center for the MAP Movement (coining the term and originating a flag concept);" - NewgonWiki as of 4 August 2022

"We started the whole 'MAP' thing" - NewgonOrg on Twitter, currently suspended

After briefly correcting the wording and admitting independent origins of the map flag, Newgon has returned with their plagiarism assumptions and claimed that "the former [the map flag] could be a very slightly darkened and tinted adaptation of the latter [the Newgon flag]" on the page dedicated to the flag and that "To say that the probability of the concept being copied/adapted is around 80% would probably be an understatement" on the page dedicated to responding to accusations. The claim has been removed again after pushback.

Misleading Terminology
Other Newgon initiatives include trying to rename "pro contact" to "pro choice", possibly as an attempt to use the positive connotations of the latter. "Pro-contact (or simply 'pro-c') is a term used to describe a person - often an MAP or ally, as favoring the permittance of minor-adult physical/sexual relations - at least hypothetically." - "Pro-c" on NewgonWiki as of 27 September 2021 "Pro-c, (pro-consent/choice or contact) is a term used to describe a person - often an MAP or ally, as favoring the permittance of minor-adult physical/sexual relations - at least hypothetically." - "Pro-c" on NewgonWiki as of 24 May 2022

This text by a Newgon activist John Holt refers to anti-contact maps as "anti choice".

On the same page with responses to accusations Newgon has claimed: ""Pro choice" (which some of us do use) was an initiative of Allyn Walker, and possibly even the MAPs they were referring to in their book." The book is unambiguously pointing towards maps as the source of this term.

"When I asked them about this label during interviews, those who were referred to as pro-contact by anticontact MAPs pushed back against being labeled as such, preferring the term pro-choice."

- Allyn Walker, A Long, Dark Shadow

That claim has also been removed after criticism from the wider community.

On its Twitter account, Newgon also claimed to be "anti-offending", which possibly means anti-forceful contact, however, "anti-offending" is typically used in contact discourse synonymously with "anti contact".

Ableism
Newgon has also taken part in spreading incorrect information about a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder that causes intrusive sexual thoughts about children and claimed it can be equated to finding children attractive.