The author of the piece? Hell no, he was deadly serious
yes, dipshit author was serious all right. but there's a difference between nationalization and a bailout. though i suppose i understand how you might assert there's no difference, that
any government interaction with business amounts to face-smashing, baby-eating communism. and of course the death of all ewoks.
author-dik wants the power of facebook - with all its glories and dangers - to be controlled by a
benevolent government. that's his real deal. not give facebook some gov money because it has had a few struggles lately, as fuckwit fashionista MBAs come down off the high and realize it is not nearly as commercially relevant as they'd thought.