The only pressure that Google has been shown to consistently respond to is political. Get a couple of senators (... of the right party) to send them a mild rebuke and they will indeed retreat a little (... and try something else later). But that's a lot harder than posting angry comments until the next piece of outrageous news comes along, isn't it?
I'm not on board with harassing people (sad that I have to include this disclaimer).
That said, the people are not simply implementing this. They're actively and publicly justifying and defending it.