Hacker news commenters are not legislators, it is therefore entirely reasonable for commenters to draw those lines however they see fit for the purposes of disc

Hacker news commenters are not legislators, it is therefore entirely reasonable for commenters to draw those lines however they see fit for the purposes of discussion. Further, it is drawing lines on the basis of number of employees/operating revenue/etc (the use of the word “global” in this case is clearly a colloquial reference to a very large firm along these metrics), is already a very common and well understood basis for drawing such lines, so such and insinuation on your part that this is some ex post facto finger pointing is without serious grounding.