The venue knows not, but that venue is a tiny cog in an empire owned by the parent group.

The parent group compiled the ban list by trawling the large law firms website for images .. and the parent group knows which offices and groups of personnel are involved in a specific case.

With large and potential trans national groups doing this it has a parallel with, for example, one country banning an entire countries citizens from entry or doing business .. on the basis that a small group of citizens took action that was undesired.

Very large companies have very large numbers of employees and many different activities on the go.

Should, for example, several thousand people be banned from watching streaming television because 15 people in the company they are associated with are involved in a class action against a media group?

What if the company was Google? What if it was a healthcare provider with a patented/proprietary treatment?

As a matter of fact, didn't we recently have articles in hn where people were commenting they are reluctant to charge back to Google because they don't want to risk losing their gmail and the rest of it?

> I'd almost consider this to have been an intentional act by the law firm

Good for them. The legal system is the only way corporations can be effectively held accountable. You can hate lawyers as much as you want but this is directed at us via proxy. Lawyers litigate for clients.

"Sorry we can't take your case. We use Google products extensively."