I'm not 100% familiar with Youtube's terms of use off the top of my head, but if he's broken them then surely they're perfectly within their right to remove his income stream as he would have agreed to their rules when he joined?
It's not like a genuine public space, being on Youtube is being...
The idea that the media are going after Russell Brand because “he says things the establishment don’t like” might hold a tad more credibility were it not for the same media hounding Huw Edwards over an arguably far less serious offence only a few months ago