@ Pisces and Stephasaurus: Let me ease your suffering. The story you are both thinking of is called Harrison Bergeron and it's by Kurt Vonnegut, I believe.
On topic: If anyone were to seriously try and fit people with chips like that in a country that is ostensibly all about freedom (I assume this is happening somewhere in North America), I would build a rocket and go and live on the moon.
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I will find you... on Gaia! :D