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You're treating can host a hotspot and can get onto someone else's network for internet access as the same thing. They're different.
That document does not support your claim. Being able to hijack a remote control session is not the same as using it for internet access.
The TV trying to hack other networks to send home your voice/watch traffic is both unverified and extremely unlikely. The always-on speech recognition itself is far more likely to have been accidental debug left on in a production build than a nefarious purpose simple because of the level of damage to brand recognition and the eventual lawsuits.