Acknowledging that there is no credible evidence: “Smart” TV manufacturers have all the wrong incentives to get 1984-style telescreens fully operational. They

Acknowledging that there is no credible evidence: “Smart” TV manufacturers have all the wrong incentives to get 1984-style telescreens fully operational. They plug into the wall so there’s no battery drain to worry about, and the prices are so artificially low (cf non-smart displays ) that they must be doing something to make it all worthwhile. Most people have a TV, spend a lot of their time near that TV, and probably have bought a 4K screen in the last decade to bring this hardware into their home. I think the laser focus on smartphones (you immediately thought smartphone when you read the headline, right?) where it’s likely impossible to do wrt power consumption, ignores the other microphone almost everywhere by now