Lol. YouTube and Facebook conspire with governments all the time.
Maybe he's being sarcastic?
I hope you realize that by "the government" you're referring to the BBC, who DMCA'd it. It is not hard to DMCA, it is easy.
fair point. Plenty of ways to circumvent this, also since there's is nation sponsored DMCA, there'd need to be clever ways to avoid the detection of video upload itself.