I submit we look to the British Broadcasting Corporation and Fannie Mae [10]
2) Nationalize 50% of YouTube (Class A shares), leaving Google with 50% of the shares (Class B shares). Only the Class A shares having voting rights.
Then... [11]
4) Reimburse Google for the now established value of the shares previously taken.
5) All future profits will be paid out as quarterly dividends equally to both Class A and B share holders. [12]
There's real reason to consider YouTube a genuinely unique "natural monopoly that produces an un-taxable externality", so maybe US taxpayers should just go ahead and buy them. [fin]
Yeah, maybe semantics, but you know what? When you're talking about using the force of government to acquire a company someone else built, the least we can do buy it from them politely, if not fairly.