Back in the 90's, when I was active on FR and advocating for impeachment of the Clintooon, I had at least two ISPs ask me to move elsewhere. At that time the FBI was using a web surveillance tech called Carnivore.
Back in the 80’s, I spent 8 years actively working in politics local, state, and federal. I helped one of President Reagan’s subcommittees at the Dept of Education. I spoke out on Dallas TV, radio, and was interviewed in the Dallas newspaper. I had a wiretap on my telephone. We picked up the phone one day and there was a recording with “tape number, date and time.” Oops. Someone screwed up. I reported it to the FBI. What a joke right? When we moved from Dallas, the telephone repairman came in scratching his head and said, “there are a lot of extra wires in the phone box.”