Typical
The Tombstone mentality, that it takes [people] dying (or protesting worldwide, in this case) before [government, business, et al] is willing to stand up for change and do the right thing, especially if there's money in the way.
Note that business and government dismissed the naysayers when it was easy to do so. Now that the entire world is attuned to the systemic bias of our systems, including the bias and inaccuracies that these systems impose on their PreCrime ideals, NOW they cower and second-guess themselves.
If pessimism wasn't such an accurate predictor of outcomes in these modern times, I'd actually be rather positive -_-
Biting the hand that feeds IT
