Turns out that the claims made by British spies about Youtube granting them the power to censor Youtube videos that they didn’t like (but weren’t illegal) were bullshit.
The “super-flagger” status they got from Google just means that their complaints get quicker scrutiny, but are (theoretically, anyway) judged by the same criteria as all other complaints about videos that violate Youtube’s community standards.
But as Techdirt’s Mike Masnick points out, the fact that senior UK government ministers believe that Youtube should remove anything “that may not be illegal, but certainly is unsavoury” is a pretty disturbing insight into the mindset of our censorious masters.