Google, Apple, and Amazon have shown everyone they're going to censor speech they don't approve of.
So who still wants to have a 'smart home' where all of your major appliances are connected to the internet and controlled by the department of truth?
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Yo. IoT devices have incredibly bad security. So if you have one on your network, hackers can potentially compromise the smart device to gain access to the rest of your network.
Smart assistants like Alexa's and Homes are just terrible. So the way they work is you speak to them, they send the data off to some server to be decrypted, and then the server sends a response back. Every once in a while employees override the system and listen to the audio to verify the right result is being returned. So you basically have a recording device for Big Brother in your home. Stay away from anything smart.
A few years ago there was a big hack where a huge number of hacked IoT devices were used in a DDOS attack that was powerful enough to actually slow down the entire internet.
But it's all worth it for a smartphone controlled coffee maker amiright?