Newgon

Original 2007 Logo

Newgon (Newgon.net) is a website/non-membership activist organization set up as Newgon.com by Daniel Lievre and Jillium on Jun 8, 2007 - after Google's censorship campaign against a number of MAP blogging sites. The organization produces concise information resources relating to MAPs and unlawful sex between minors and adults, for the use of online guerilla activists and trolls. It has also run forums for general discussion of said topics and organization of these activities.

The website has also hosted a weblog and the informational wiki you are currently reading. Newgon is maintained by the Newgon.com Support Team. In its present form, Newgon is archive-heavy, with less-frequently updated Encyclopedia content. Blogging and Webmagazine content has been archived and a Forum will return in 2021 or early 2022, with the aim of organizing MAP activism using the Wiki projects as base material.

Newgon is notable for being the first website to host an article defining a Minor Attracted Person. As detailed in the article, Newgon's cofounder, Daniel Lievre and supporting contributor, BLueRibbon were the first authors to regularly use the term, on a now defunct blog known as ANU/ATC in early 2007. The term was subsequently adopted by B4U-Act (who were already using the similar term "Minor Attracted Adult"), and various mental health professionals/academics, entering the public lexicon in 2018. Newgon is also the birthplace of the MAP Flag concept, with the current flag's predecessor being submitted to a seemingly incomplete 2009 competition for a united symbol.

Historical commentary

Juan Gonzalez Llort

The beginnings of this site...

Some time in late 2005, I was reading the daily news breakdown on "Rotten.com", and in coming across a reference to a "NAMBLA membership card" on one of their obligatory TeenBoy sex comment threads, decided to investigate further. Having been of the opinion that the contemporary conflict between the "inherent corrupting nature" of sexuality and the "innocent" child is largely constructed since my early teen years, I was fascinated that there may be campaigning organisations that represent my point of view. I quickly moved on to the NAMBLA website and those which were linked to it, especially the English translation of Vereniging MARTIJN's site. I decided to help MARTIJN by proofreading a couple of their articles whilst at the same time perfecting my debating skills on an unrelated bulletin board. After being banned from this board for upsetting the locals, I moved on to the (until recently) free-speech tolerant IIDB.org, where I would eventually take part in many debates on intergenerational love and other moral issues such as homosexuality and abortion. It is from one of these debates that the idea for "Debate Guide" was conceived by myself and developed with the help of a collaborator, Raza, who had been toying with these debates on an off for much longer than myself.

From that point, I continued to build the guide using free hosting from Google and inspiration from my own thoughts and many online resources. I went on to start an "easy reading alternative"; a blog called "Game ON!" (Hence the New-G-On that you see today) on Google's Blogger.com. After only a few months and a hate campaign by rabid "AntiPeds" (as a side note, I have never had a pedophilic preference, although the label is often used as a straw-man), my blog was removed. The rest of my Google hosted sites would not take long to fulfil their destiny of reaching the online freedom of speech graveyard. From all of these sites, only my original blog and a few spin-off pages still existed, and even this was largely due to my more widespread efforts in preventing the addresses of deleted websites from being swallowed up by vigilante elements.

So what next? A few e.mails to free hosting providers confirmed my suspicions; hardly anyone is willing to risk hosting speech that is truly free, in both societal and monetary senses of the word. After asking for help, I was directed towards NearlyFreeSpeech.net, a paid host that is only concerned with the legality of its content. Using this service, and the help of another web administrator, Jillium, I am re-hosting DebateGuide, along with a stable of other resources including what should become a community of like-minded activists.

Youth partnership

Newgon integrates it's support for MAP Activism with a pro-Youth Rights agenda. The website makes repeated references to adults' testimonies of sexual relationships in their youth.

Official statement

Newgon sometimes hosts discussions involving minors, some of whom are self-identified as themselves being sexually attracted to other minors. A minor's right to free participation is derived from international convention and other human rights agreements. We do not host any "adult" materials on our server, or permit its sharing.

Ownership

The website is now officially registered to a member of a small group that is concerned with freedom of expression on the internet. The registration is masked by a proxy service to reduce the risk of harassment.

Coverage

The site was a favourite with Google Groups polemicists and has been criticised repeatedly on Wikipedia. It is now frequently listed on the Hidden Wiki.

In an article that quoted the producer of Law and Order: SVU, the gay news site afterelton.com claimed that a "pedophile rights group" in the TV drama was based on Newgon.