It won't be a revolt against the government. It will be a fight between people that want to "return back to norm" and people that don't want to accept the compromise.

Civil unrest allows the government to mandate martial law and proceed as they see fit with militarized streets.

People that are against the changes will be portrayed as the enemy.

If the resistance is too strong, they will temporarily release a more deadly strain to make the resistance crumble from within, as their members submit just to stop the deaths.

However I doubt we will get to that last scenario, most likely the vast majority will submit early on, without realizing what is happening - and the small resistance left will be oppressed though lack of utility, food and social status.

Orwell just wrote a book about the soviet union. Things were exactly as he described in the book.

Does that make us devil-based life forms?

They just need to engineer a situation where refusing the chip will be worse than accepting it.