Imagine instead of Goldman the OP would have said "YCombinator", how fast do you think it would have been downvoted ?

You can't have one rule for companies you like and another for companies you don't.

I like many HN'ers am a startup founder, I'd be horrified if someone baselessly accused my company of advocating criminal activities. I don't care if the company being wrongly accused is Goldman, Microsoft, AOL or some tiny startup. Wrong is wrong.

While such behaviour might be tolerated in other online communities, it should have absolutely no-place on HN.

You're just being obtuse. I didn't wrongly accuse Goldman. I rightly pointed out past abuses which Goldman has carried out. Do you not read the news?

And yes. You most certainly can have one rule for companies who are multi-billion-dollar bad actors, and other rules for companies which, well, aren't.

This isn't complex.

Perhaps unfortunate, or inaccurate, but horrifying?

If I keep acting inappropriately, I can't blame anyone but myself for rumors that pass around about other inappropriate behavior. It's life.