That is correct. I have heard rumors that there are people at Google who want to wield their architecture to censor websites they disagree with. Essentially marking certain websites as malicious, solely because they don't want people to be able to view them.

I don't think it is at all far fetched. We've already seen domain registrars in the United States arbitrary delete domain names for purely political reasons that they made up on the spot. Why not revoke certificates from websites that they find objectionable?

It's not like most users would know how to force their device to connect anyway. On many Android devices, it is virtually impossible to force your browser to connect to a site Google doesn't want you to. But they've gotten this far because we trust them to only protect us from malicious sites.