Yeah, he writes with the assumption that it will lead to a reckoning for Silicon Valley. But like you say, that assumption relies on legislatures/courts (including public opinion) to confront the problem.

In reality, these institutions continue to acquiesce and appease. Is "appeasement" not another conflict theory he should have seriously considered? He may have also assumed there was a limit to the cognitive dissonance that could be tolerated by the system..