Corporate Hypocrisy Criticism

The cluster focuses on debates criticizing large corporations for prioritizing profits over ethics, hypocrisy in their actions, and calls for greater accountability, often highlighting perceived double standards in Hacker News discussions.

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BigCorpThatMightDoBadThing VC HN NWA corporations companies corporate corporation company greed company does context large companies corp

Sample Comments

norov Aug 19, 2021 View on HN

Starting to suspect that a trillion dollar corporation is more interested in profits than fighting for the little guy?

serverholic Feb 1, 2023 View on HN

This feels like a bad faith comment. You could have commented on systemic issues with these corporations but instead you fixated on one example.

Chris2048 Dec 4, 2017 View on HN

"why we can't have nice things" assume good faith on part of large corporations. In reality, they push for shit like this the hardest. They pioneer dickishness.

maxerickson Feb 10, 2023 View on HN

People shit on companies for talking one way and acting another. It's simple.

Dont criticize the billion dollar corporation >:(

ronsor Dec 2, 2025 View on HN

I find it strange how people are so invested in spiting $BigCorpThatMightDoBadThing that they're willing to harm the public at large as well.

StefanBatory Feb 7, 2025 View on HN

Shame though that corpos aren't responsible for their actions too :|

anaganisk May 10, 2023 View on HN

Aren't all corporations basically following the same mantra, I mean some companies active here on HN, constantly bait and switch, have misleading labels or policies. What's new here? I mean why exactly is this particular case so different?

guilhas Oct 2, 2021 View on HN

It is just the running theme on HNA company does something wrong, bad companyDoes something wrong to a group I dislike, it's just a private company

D9u Jan 11, 2014 View on HN

We can't forget the corporate culpability in this matter...