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At this point if you still have your television hooked up to the internet you deserve whatever these companies do to you. The TV would work just fine if you'd never told it about your wifi.
A lot of TVs these days won't start working without wifi. I set up a temporary ssid, set up the TV then delete it.
Hooking it up once is one thing, but actively using the Internet connectivity is just begging these companies to screw you over. That being said, I'd sooner bring it back to the store and get a different one than let it phone home even once.