I agree, but lawyers are crazy expensive, basically to the point where going to court against a large corporation is actually financially untenable.

Our material conditions are simply such that the only recourse a lot of groups have to corporate malfeasance is posting on hacker news (because it's the behavior we see)

I understand, but what's cheaper for the complainant becomes expensive for HN if this trend continues. If HN gives these kinds of posts a separate area or navbar button and is fine with spending the bandwidth, then fine. I just don't like seeing the posts mixed with actual tech posts.