The political will is already captured and redirected.

There are numerous bills to limit AI access for consumers, to combat deepfakes hurting children. There are no bills introduced or passed to prevent AI being used to target dronestrikes that kill children abroad, or surveil children domestically.

What the public wants doesn't actually matter right now, only what the government will allow to let pass, which in this case is additional internet surveillance.

Under a future, better government this may change, but (sadly) nothing is going to sink tech's dominance right now.

The anger and unhappiness against tech is good, and hopefully someday they'll burn down all the data centers and I'll never have to hear the words Cloud Computing again, but (to paraphrase a famous Eve Online interaction) it's not going to be today, and it's not going to be us.