Help:FAQ

Welcome to NewgonWiki's FAQ! Frequently asked questions about NewgonWiki, Newgon Organization and the Yesmap website.

Q: What is Newgon's platform?

A: We don't have one.

Newgon exists to publish and promote rare literature and compile information resources.

We have an ethos that determines who volunteers for us, what we decide to publish, and some of our activities besides that. But no one is employing an informatioal strategy here, according to some predetermined agenda set in Newgon HQ. If you are reading articles on Newgon, attempting to discern an agenda or platform, this is where you are almost certainly going wrong.

The best description of Newgon is as an "headless resistance" initiative. We do the basics for you, producing an information scheme composed of a broad and sometimes contradicting base of useful knowledge. You decide what parts to employ, and how.

We are independently funded by two individuals, occasionally (and very rarely) anonymous donors, and do not receive money from any charity or foundation besides those individuals. We have no support from Russia, nor Israel, George Soros, Bill Gates or any other government or philanthropist we have been wrongly linked with. Our life might be easier if we had an institutional backer, but this lack of affiliation can also be seen as a kind of strength, especially for an organisation that has lasted almost two decades.

Q: Does Newgon "circulate accounts justifying child molestation"?

A: No.

This slander originated from a Wikipedia article that included Newgon as one of its subjects. However, the same article relies on the claims of opinion journalists and also originated hoax claims such as the existence of a Yaweh child sex organisation and an Indian counterpart to NAMBLA.

At some point in time (and not presently), Newgon has been active in promoting Accounts and Testimonies on social media. It is purely the (premature, fanciful) opinion of some journalists, that these accounts justify "child molestation". Maybe these journalists were successfully convinced of something we are less certain about, but for starters most of the younger subjects in our lived experiences section are minors and no longer children, and our own ethos does not include prepubertal children in its proposal for age of consent reform.

Q: Is Newgon "pro pedophile"?

A: Newgon is supportive of all marginalised sexual and gender minorities.

A better question here, is what does "pro-pedophile" even mean in this day and age?

The insult is often hurled by clout-chasing influencers, many of them conspiracy theorists who are on to a grift, but it actually means very little when we drill down. They might be referring to LGBTQ+ literature in schools and libraries, or prevention-focussed research and therapies for the group we refer to as "MAPs". They might be describing a female teacher who pursued a relationship with a fifteen year old male student.

Fundamentally, there exists a group of people within our society (a small few percent according to the APA) who have a sexual preference for prepubertal children, and these individuals are true pedophiles. They are the victims of an unimaginable social stigma, just like those who are slandered as pedophiles and pedophile defenders. But for them, the burden can be lifelong.

Q: Does Newgon support the New Right, and the idea of an ethnostate?

A: No.

Newgon is a MAP and ally organisation, so why would we even be involved with these ideas? Our administrators and members are avowedly anti-fascist, because we are pro-sexual minority. To us, this is a logically consistent position.

Since 2021, administrators and some users of the NNIA fediverse instance have maliciously circulated these falsehoods, and numerous others based on the views and behaviour of a few, mostly banned users of a chat group, PCMA. This was in response to the attempt of a Newgon editor to redesign the MAP Flag, literally an online graphic, leading to a years-long campaign of libel.

While PCMA made use of Newgon's Yesmap server, this has not been the case for a very long time, namely the turn of 2023/24. Discussion of white nationalism on the present server (unaffiliated with Newgon) is often confrontative, but rarely advocative, and prospective users are asked to screen themselves for cultural sensitivities. Antisemitic expressions are also more common within thid politically agnostic group, which has often sought to disrupt and divide alt-right spaces by sending impersonators.

Q: Does Newgon oppose self-identification, e.g. excluding those with a trans-identity?

A: No.

Founding members of Newgon have a long history of defending trans people, and their right to exist publicly, for example, Jim Burton in a series of posts stretching back many years on BoyChat, a MAP website with sometimes hostile commentary on this subject.

This was another myth, deliberately propagated by NNIA administrators in response to the controversy above. It was immediately debunked, yet continues to be circulated with malice.

Among Newgon members, there may exist differing views on transmedicalist discourse, and the role of self-identification within the idea of transness, as this is a highly complicated and contested subject.

Q: Is Newgon against Youth Rights?

A: No.

Without youth voice, Youth Rights will not be a realistic possibility. It is hard to imagine a provocative argument such as age of consent reform succeeding without the voice of youth, and harder to imagine such an initiative succeeding in the present climate, without a broader base of action on youth rights in general.