That sounds more like they cannot eradicated all enclaves of rebels, but they can control mouch of the territory. Namely the higher-privileged rings.<p>If you try to run your &quot;free&quot; software stack inside a javascript engine inside an approved browser inside an approve operating system then your data is neither secure nor do you actually have control over the execution.<p>If they can blacklist apps they can also blacklist domains from which you load javascript. It cascades down and you&#x27;re basically retreating to the position where you say &quot;as long as I can do some computation everything is fine&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s not fine if you lose control over more and more parts of your computer.<p>You think laptops are safe? Think about secure boot and those Windows RT devices which do not boot linux despite being capable ARM devices.