NewsJune 5, 2019 4:00 PM ET21,419 views

YouTube deletes channel of Burzum founder Varg Vikernes

For the past seven years, Norwegian black metal musician Varg Vikernes has been video blogging via his YouTube channel, ThuleanPerspective. Not surprisingly, much of the content from Vikernes (a convicted murderer, among other things) is widely considered to be racist, bigoted, and discriminatory. Certainly YouTube feels that way, as they deleted Vikernes' channel this afternoon. The move comes on the heels of YouTube's announcement today that they'd be cracking down on purveyors of material they deem to be "hate speech":
"Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. This would include, for example, videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory. Finally, we will remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place."
Varg will almost certainly find a new outlet for his videos, but for now, his 250,000 YouTube subscribers will have to amuse (or inspire, sadly) themselves in other ways. [via MetalSucks]

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anonymous 6/5/2019 1:08:27 PM

Will anyone really care? LET'S FIND OUT.

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:11:32 PM

Just like our old gym teachers chant "hip hip....' what comes next!? c'mon someone chime in!!!

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:14:47 PM

lol this is gonna piss off the lambgoat incel meatslits, which seems about 50% these days

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:37:09 PM

I love everyone crying about this. A private company can do whatever the hell they want with their own platform. We go over this every time. If you bigots hate it so much then create your own company to compete with Youtube. mUh FrEe MaRkEt!!

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:38:55 PM

think of the burzum ban the comments

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:44:23 PM

"I love everyone crying about this. A private company can do whatever the hell they want with their own platform. We go over this every time. If you bigots hate it so much then create your own company to compete with Youtube. mUh FrEe MaRkEt!!" Let me guess, you were rubbing your hands intensely underneath your hook nose after you typed this, right Shlomo?

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:50:20 PM

Varg Vikernes is bae

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:51:18 PM

but are they gonna remove all the videos saying the armenian genocide is fake?

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:51:38 PM

HAHA WHAT A LOSER

anonymous 6/5/2019 1:51:56 PM

^ mmm the antisemitic commentary of the incel from a fly-over state who fantasizes about fcking his cousin. The world would be better off if you fell throat first on to a broken bottle.

anonymous 6/5/2019 2:04:35 PM

Does this mean Phil anselmo too

anonymous 6/5/2019 2:12:38 PM

Does this mean LG channel too?

anonymous 6/5/2019 2:30:01 PM

anonymous51 minutes ago I love everyone crying about this. A private company can do whatever the hell they want with their own platform. We go over this every time. If you bigots hate it so much then create your own company to compete with Youtube. mUh FrEe MaRkEt!! permalink | report abuse Idiot.

anonymous 6/5/2019 2:33:12 PM

rip

anonymous 6/5/2019 2:36:33 PM

Lurkshitty's abysmal podcast next, thanks.

anonymous 6/5/2019 3:02:56 PM

metal and hardcore is suppose to be dangerous. bunch of virtue signaling half breeds checking in here from sh*t covered california

anonymous 6/5/2019 3:28:05 PM

Nothing wrong in Nazis's ideas to stop communists who killed 30M Russian people to force others to accept communism and give everything to socialists who destroyed economy in Russia then harmed European economy by forcing countries to join the communists society. And nothing wrong in idea to save whites from genocide! I support Nurzum. fck YouTube

anonymous 6/5/2019 3:29:04 PM

Ghost Bath is to blame for this, hipster trash BM era is about to commence.

anonymous 6/5/2019 3:34:45 PM

while they are at it they should delete the As i Lay Dying channel for spreading hate against women

anonymous 6/5/2019 3:45:31 PM

guess the " free marketplace of ideas" discontinued the product! Damn guys, where the hell am I gonna get good and informative videos on how to karate chop otherangrii bois?I HATE REGULATION BUT THERE SHOULD BE SOME SORTOFADMINISTRATING TO Potek THE FAR RIGHTS OPINIONS ARE PROTECTED....But def not a government! vrg made it very clear through his tabletop game book that it was only a matterof time before the "inferior" races accidentally andintellectually surpass his entire life \_??_/

anonymous 6/5/2019 3:58:20 PM

"Nothing wrong with Nazi ideas to stop communist from killing 30m Russians" LOL this dude has a fcking McNugget brain!! "Nothing wrong with the Germans killing millions of Russians to prevent Russian from killing millions of Russians!/!" Let's play the numbers game where completely preventable disease and starvation kills 2 million ppl a year in our own capitalist utopia!!

anonymous 6/5/2019 4:35:32 PM

i don't think national socialism / racism is really what anyone credible or intelligent has ever meant by "hardcore and metal are supposed to be dangerous" so keep that bs to yourself

anonymous 6/5/2019 4:36:47 PM

All that did was get rid of the middle man for varg. If he cares enough he can do his own medium

anonymous 6/5/2019 4:40:47 PM

People that support shooting Palestinian children are STOKED

anonymous 6/5/2019 5:06:37 PM

Lol those pajama boy liberal betas at Metal Sucks have locked this idiot so hard in the past now they pretend they're offended.

anonymous 6/5/2019 5:38:22 PM

Mayhem sucked in 91 and still suck now. Where is the White Metal? Nope, not gonna have it huh...only thing we can have is black metal? Sounds racist.

anonymous 6/5/2019 5:39:39 PM

Pedophiles and Antifa remain on YouTube. fck that. Besides, hate speech is awesome. It's way better than social justice.

anonymous 6/5/2019 5:40:03 PM

good, he is a terrible human. He needs death.

anonymous 6/5/2019 6:09:40 PM

Today: yeah lets ban people for YT and FB cos after all its their platform and they can decide who they allow on it (ie do business with) Next week:A shop refuses to bake a cake for some homo's and the same people cheering on YT and FB's purge now are in full NPC rage mode and demanding cake business be shut down for doing the same thing YT and FB did : choose who they do business with. fcking morons

anonymous 6/5/2019 6:19:55 PM

Pro-censorship liberal snowflakes still believe that Jussie Smollett did nothing wrong.

anonymous 6/5/2019 6:22:25 PM

I wonder what Corey Taylor thinks about all this.. next time on Lambgoat

anonymous 6/5/2019 6:30:52 PM

There is no way YouTube will shut down black power material

anonymous 6/5/2019 9:15:39 PM

Varg is shut down but gay sex is cool? This was is why we will all become nameless faceless nothings that serve the interests of the Jew. We are letting them destroy us.

anonymous 6/5/2019 9:47:12 PM

great congregation of jew baters in sh*t covered california

anonymous 6/5/2019 10:44:25 PM

So this means they will be deleting all the videos saying we should mix races and black lives matter and BBC this and that...right?

anonymous 6/6/2019 12:31:09 AM

butthurt edgelords itt

anonymous 6/6/2019 5:51:09 AM

Vargflip.

carveyournamein 6/6/2019 5:54:30 AM

Burzum is still on YouTube Music, though.

anonymous 6/6/2019 6:15:21 AM

Poseurs who discovered Lambgoat through 9th wave metalcore bands being sh*tposted on Facebook in 2013 and think Deafheaven is black metal are stoked. VIVA VARG.

anonymous 6/6/2019 6:30:46 AM

tor project dot org

anonymous 6/6/2019 7:19:35 AM

lol Varg flip

anonymous 6/6/2019 7:42:16 AM

tee-hee-hee!!! Burzum's F0under g0t BLACK B00KED!!! P00R VARG-A-MEL.

anonymous 6/6/2019 3:28:34 PM

I'm so pleased to see all the degenerate cro-magnon boi's getting their inferior genes in a twist over my comment. As nazi scum finds less and less "safe places" maybe one day you'll accept that no one will ever love you

anonymous 6/6/2019 5:34:34 PM

lol @ all the Carl's Jr. manager Varg nazis. Too bad your piece of shit parents didn't have abortions

anonymous 6/7/2019 12:52:45 AM

People who have no idea what false equivalence is are pissed

anonymous 6/7/2019 6:59:26 AM

All you haters are obviously democrat or snowflake liberals and it clearly shows! So much tolerance from the tolerant left! Is it no wonder why Trump is going to win again in 2020?! Because of stupid shit comments like these! You all need Jesus!

anonymous 6/7/2019 12:38:31 PM

Free Varg down with the zion!!!!! You're all imbeciles. Varg is an imbecile the problem isn't that they're deleting all Vargs shit the problem is they're deleting anything they don't agree with is Flat Earth theory videos are being labeled "harmful material" anything questioning Israel's actions on the West Bank and Gaza Strip gets deleted go check out a lot of what they deleted

anonymous 6/7/2019 1:28:43 PM

"Nothing wrong in Nazis's ideas to stop communists who killed 30M Russian people to force others to accept communism and give everything to socialists who destroyed economy in Russia then harmed European economy by forcing countries to join the communists society. And nothing wrong in idea to save whites from genocide! I support Nurzum. fck YouTube" Porks his mom

anonymous 6/7/2019 1:53:52 PM

But won't someone think of the kebab?????

anonymous 6/7/2019 2:35:35 PM

"they're deleting anything they don't agree with" You stupid fcking twat, youtube is under no obligation to provide a platform for ANYONE. Yes even entitled c*nts like you are owed nothing by a private company. Sucks that you will die a virgin but maybe if you spent more time educating yourself and getting a job that matters you wouldn't be so lonely all the time.

anonymous 6/7/2019 6:08:44 PM

whether you agree or not with what Varg spews, the rules need to change and there's no reason anyone should be silenced. no one can create anything to compete with youtube so the "make your own freespace" is irrelevant.

anonymous 6/9/2019 8:42:41 AM

Lmao Google isn't a private company. They receive government subsidies and datamine for the NSA. If any company should be avoiding censorship it's Jewgle

fourthgradecocktease 6/9/2019 1:06:16 PM

"Nothing wrong in Nazis's ideas to stop communists who killed 30M Russian people to force others to accept communism and give everything to socialists who destroyed economy in Russia then harmed European economy by forcing countries to join the communists society. And nothing wrong in idea to save whites from genocide! I support Nurzum. fck YouTube" Porks his mom" Even she wouldn't fck him

anonymous 6/9/2019 1:49:06 PM

The political correctness is killing our society. No wonder China will crush us down.

anonymous 6/12/2019 5:33:39 AM

"Lmao Google isn't a private company" This nazi is so fcking stupid he doesn't even know what company we're talking about. Ladies and gentlemen, the "master race"

anonymous 6/13/2019 7:10:24 AM

YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, smooth brain. YouTube is not private and you dont even believe in a free market so eat shit. Get a job and keep jerking off.

anonymous 6/13/2019 9:37:41 AM

"you dont even believe in a free market" You only believe in it when it works for you.




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