No, its not.
> The poster is making a positive claim without evidence.
True.
That doesn't make the alternate positive claim you have posited into “the null hypothesis”.
A null hypothesis is null. What you are stating may be your prior, but it is not the, or even a valid, null hypothesis.
> This is a rational use of ‘null hypothesis’, but it also matches the scientific use,
“Null hypothesis” is a very specific scientific term of artz it has no other meaning.
And, no, the specific counternarrative presented here does not match the scientific use of “null hypothesis”.