I think it's an absurd assertion to say "there was no substantive discussion prior to this about police using Rekognition". Seems to me that people are now becoming aware of the problem with this, and Amazon has implemented a one-year (not permanent moratorium) in order to allow for more discussion and legislation around the issue. There are much bigger implications than the facebook issue if you are misidentifying criminals as a result of bad facial recognition, so you can't really equivocate the two.

Also, to call this "mob outrage" or "principled consumer pressure" is delegitimizing the entire thing. Do you really genuinely think this happens any other way? Seems like when a lot of people start to have a problem with something, it makes sense to have a moratorium and investigate improvements/solutions.