@poopernova Removing the wireless card will stop it from sending off what the spying features have collected, but that won't make the software running on the TV not proprietary.

In many such cases the case is very difficult to remove without breaking a bunch of glue and the wireless card is soldered to the board - sure you can desolder it, but that's kind of risky and there's a chance that the TV software will refuse to work as it can't load proprietary software onto the Wi-Fi card etc.