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 and often conspiratorial viewpoints, suggesting anti-contact people are "sex fascists"  , controlling the contact stance of major governments , and part of a "child abuse industry" or "CSA-industrial complex".

Misogyny
Newgon resorts to "triggered feminist" memes to present anti-contacts as "Social Justice Warriors"/"SJWs", promoting sexism and bodyshaming to score points against imagined opponents. They devalue older or infertile women to present young girls as more desirable. Two of their "Memes and Graphics" are labeled with "feminazi" or "feminazis".

Transphobia
Newgon seems to support the transphobic idea that the LGBT community forces gay youth to transition. Newgon refers to Allyn Walker as a "trans academic who was attacked for 'misappropriating queer experiences' by activists in his own University's trans umbrella organization," misgendering them with incorrect pronouns.

Racism
Newgon refers to Indigenous peoples as "primitive".

Antisemitism
Newgon uses antisemitic caricatures in attempt to prove their point. One of their "Memes and Graphics" is labeled with the antisemitic dogwhistle "lizard people".

In attempt to deflect from accusations of having a "New-Right/Alt-Lite Philosophy," Newgon says that it has metaphorically "'holocausted' antisemites and a whole variety of race-obsessed people, including some left-wing racists immediately," comparing mass genocide to (supposedly) banning someone from a chatroom.

Fatphobia/Body-shaming
Newgon also frequently uses fatphobia and other body-shaming. Some examples also involve insulting an opponent's lifestyle as "unhealthy" and "unnatural", or even using fascist terminology such as "degenerate," "mental defective," and "inferior physiognomy".

Ableism
Newgon has 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.

Newgon claims that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a "fanciful idea" "formerly or presently promoted to aid in categorizing 'ideal' victims and perpetrators". While labeling the (mapmisic) anti-CSA psychologist Joyanna Silberg as a "hostile" "pseudoscientist" and "unsympathetic activist" in its page of people who have "spread misinformation about pedophiles or promoted the ideology of Child Sexual Abuse in public," Newgon cites as its reasoning that she is an "advocate of Dissociative identity Disorder". Newgon recommends Bruce Rind's analysis that the Leadership Council, a (mapmisic) organization Silberg is a member of, provides inaccurate information about mental health issues because its members "advocate for the validity of repressed memories and multiple personality disorder (MPD)," labeling these as "alleged" problems. Newgon states that it has a "skeptical treatment of DID, a highly controversial and lucrative diagnosis whose purported existence is likely a function of personality types and sociogenic factors, rather than the traumas said to underpin it".

Newgon uses the term "mentally retarded" to refer to cognitively disabled people. Newgon hosts an image file "Retards.png," titled "Retarded or perturbed pedophile myth," and titled in the graphic itself as "The Retarded and Perturbed… 'Pedophile Degenerate.'" The text of the graphic seems to be trying to prove that pedophiles are more acceptable and less "degenerate" because they have relatively "normal" or greater intellectual capacities and executive functioning. In a guide to "Social Media and Trolling," Newgon recommends that users insult an opponent as "mid-witted, with an IQ between 80 and 110" and "retarded".

Newgon insults its critics for supposedly having "OCD character traits".

Ageism
Newgon promotes anti-minor sentiments. They trivialize abuse of children in school and the home, claiming that assaultive interactions "are never seen to cause mental torture, nor to have lifelong consequences." According to Newgon, the belief that "non-consensual play," "beatings," "bullying," "discipline," and other abuses of power over children will harm them is "totally unwarranted," "moral hysteria," and "reactionism." Newgon claims people should be happy about this and should encourage it by "erasing societal stigmas," but is vague about what exactly is being "stigmatized".

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" to mean being against contact when it breaks the law (although still pro-contact for when it is legal). However, "anti-offending" is typically used in contact discourse synonymously with "anti-contact."