You don’t need the tv to be online for that. The tv should (and can) just work as a monitor, which you plug into your own computer. Then the tv remains dumb and unable to spy on you.

Noone is a foreigner on the world wide web. It is mainly Americans who expect everyone else on the internet to be Americans.

It’s not so wholesome to post twitter links though.

The fact that corporations sees the fediverse as inconsequential. The minute people flood it in larger numbers as they are fleeing the corporate entshittified internet, that is exactly what they are going to do though.