ROFL, who's the worse privacy violator, Facebook or the NSA

Facebook. With absolute certainty.

NSA's a black box whose sole purpose is the aggregation and analysis of any information with potential relevance to US national security. It has the capacity to compel or infiltrate companies like Facebook to make them cooperate with its goals, and data sharing agreements with multiple nations. Privacy violation isn't a side-effect of its business model, it's its raison d'être.

I wouldn't dismiss NSA so offhandedly along this metric, even if it's ostensibly more constrained along legal boundaries.

why pretend, just roll it all into one

People are reflexively downvoting you, but actual discussion would be nice.

After all, the postal service is in the constitution, so this country started with an essential communication service nationalized from the outset.

What if Facebook was government funded and supported in the same manner, instead of privately advertiser-funded?

I downvoted parent, not because I don't think nationalizing FB is a worthwhile conversation - it is - but because his or her comment was completely lacking in substance.

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The biggest issue that I see with nationalizing Facebook is: what does it mean for the US government, bound by the First Amendment, to manage a social media platform? Can there be literally any moderation at all without infringing on the First Amendment? Honest question. Clearly, fake news and the like cannot be removed. What about spam? Personal attacks? What about when those attacks get racist and vile (the US does not have hate speech laws)?