If a company behaves badly then I think it’s warranted to bring up their bad behavior whenever that company is the topic of discussion. In the U.S. we mostly have regulatory capture and so people need to fight back or otherwise hold companies accountable.
I don’t know if Google qualifies in my mind for this sort of action but companies like BP, Exxon, and others do.
If that's true, then you're only exacerbating it by attacking "said thread".
Furthermore, threads raising the issue of googles seemingly erratic depredation of their products and threads discussing the product itself aren't mutually exclusive. You can do this neat thing called scroll down, and not read these threads if they bother you so much.
That's the thing I don't get. Why don't people just ignore the comments they don't like and don't want to boost? Feels like some kind of Stack Overflow-esque over-persnickety moderation syndrome.
Why not just submit a post about that directly and let that be the topic of discussion?
Do you see how this entire thread is irrelevant to the submitted post? Do you see the problem?