I wrote one sentence about how "there are ways for companies to go too far", which I think is pretty dang uncontroversial and trivially-true. However that user replied with what is clearly a disagreement, with corporate justifications and placing sole responsibility on employees to avoid the hardware.
This leads to two competing options:
(A) They simply can't imagine any scenario where a company might "go too far" and be at fault.
(B) Their stance is much milder, but for some reason they are replying to a straw-man argument that isn't what I actually wrote.
Of those two ambiguities, I went with (A), but if you think (B) is a more-charitable reading...
No, they shouldn't be flicking on your laptop camera or mic remotely, as these are pretty obviously violations of your privacy.