Panic on the streets of...Your living room OR Anything for a "They Live" reference

I found this article on a website dramatically called prisonplanet.com. No, not a website for a movie based off of the ending of whichever Mortal Kombat dingleberry-of-a-movie that was (you know what I'm talking about). This is a website that, from what I can tell from my...0 research, wants you to shit your pants. Big Brother's watching you while you're watching Big Brother (I could punch myself for that).

But I digress.
This article deals with a youtube video of some guy who has taken his digital cable box apart, to find a small camera, and microphone. This more-than-likely hoax's fire is stoked by the fact that all the cable went digital on the 17th. (MOTHERSHITTING CONSPIRACY, Y'ALL.)

“I could not believe my eyes,” states the blurb accompanying the video clip, “I have a friend who is kind of a conspiracy theorist. He was trying to convince me that many of the digital TV convert boxes that are coming out have microphones and cameras built into them. Knowing a bit about electronics I bought one of these devices opened it up fully intending on proving him wrong. To my surprise he was right. This device has both a miniature camera lens and what looks like a microphone. I was so shocked I took pictures and video. Please send this out to everyone you know who is using one of these devices.”

Stop that.
I'm going to say this is false. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt it. Get off your fat ass and don't watch TV if you don't want the government to watch you sit on your fat ass, watching TV.
There's shit in the article about companies publically announcing that they want to put microphones in shit to know what your kind of shit you like, so they can give you that shit, while you shit your life away working your shit job to pay for said shit (Shit run-on, ah.) There's the 1984, "the government is watching you" angle in there, too. Duh.
(I would love to know what curly-mustached villains are hatching crimes against humanity while watching Everybody Loves Raymond...)
Some of the comments are pretty goddamn golden, as well. Take a peak
One guy even makes a comment about subliminal messages through your TV. Um, "They Live," FTW.

Rowdy Roddy Piper's going to get all this shit straighted out, guys. Don't worry.

'mericuh!