A nationwide firewall could always be bypassed (see: Russia, China, Iran), but what if they just went directly to the end user device and add a chip that constantly scans for anti-regime keywords? Especially when there is “AI” that could be embedded to just do basic OCR and close the browser when such “prohibited items” are detected.
Maybe for the aforementioned countries, its harder to create their own chips.
But I think an authoritarian USA definitely could.
Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Apple Silicon, are all in the US; Couldn’t the US government just order those companies to add such “censorship chip” to devices sold in the US? Checks and balances seems to be not really a thing anymore…
This way, no amount of “VPN” is gonna work. The censorship chip is gonna block any negative mentions of trump. And with the US’s cooperation, Russia, China, Iran could also acheive the same in their jurisdictions.
Am I just worrying to much.
Is a “censorship chip” even possible?
That hasn’t stopped them from making idiotic laws before, look at all the US states that are trying to ban porn on the internet.
Sure, there’s been talk of banning encryption as well, but practically speaking, that would be an unmitigated disaster in terms of security alone.
Of course it would but politicians are famously stupid, they have no idea and little care if something is actually feasible.