Dystopian clouds gathering
...And of course make your local hardware incompatible with the rest of the world, so you have a perfect control over your herd's grazing. A captive, walled market is much easier to control and protect, and, lacking competition, doesn't take as much effort either. Once you can make using foreign stuff a criminal offense you're golden: You now control both the professional and the private sphere of your subjects.
Next step, replace Internet access with network enclaves not unlike Compuserve and AOL, offering carefully curated content painting a positive image of the country and its rulers: People don't need to know some things, it only creates bad blood. (You might smile, but it's already starting in some countries, with more and more governments starting to "filter out" the "nasty" parts of Internet. And we all know where this leads: To the one and unique "OurCountryIsTheBest.ccTLD" internet portal supposed to offer everything a honest, law-abiding and god-fearing citizen might ever want or need.)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favor of creating a chance for a choice of less messed-up CPUs, but given the general political atmosphere there are some very large pitfalls to be avoided.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
