Well, different levels of the control system have different abilities to monitor and different reasons for doing so. What the "government" could care less about, perhaps hyperdimensional forces find a strong need to monitor, and vice versa.
The worst kind of monitoring is from federal agencies who think you're breaking some law or posing a threat to national security. Political activists and religious fanatics get this sometimes. End results are jail, kidnapping, torture, threats, murder, financial ruin, and so on.
The low-tech forms of monitoring are what you're most likely to encounter when surfing the web and communicating with your buddies. Email snooping, web activity tracking, keystroke logging, search engine query caching, cellphone interception, credit and bank activity monitoring, etc... They're just making a list, checking it twice... Unless you are chatting with Osama or trading kiddie porn this type of monitoring is not serious enough to get you into immediate trouble. Running away and hiding in a cave will do you more harm than communicating what you need to. There are some common sense safety measures you can take like encrypted voice and email, firewalls, and proxies but some monitoring is so advanced these are more gestures of your resistance than effective countermeasures.
Your name is probably already on a list. There's probably a database entry for you, continually updated with your latest activity. They're probably planning on rounding up and eliminating those they don't like.... but so what? When they come for you, if you're smart and in the flow you won't be there. It's a tradeoff between living in full safety as a ghost (then what's life worth living for?) or striving forward to smash as far as you can into the future regardless of harassment or monitoring.
The type of threat one poses determines the type of attention one receives. You can be someone who knows too much...but too much of what? If you know free energy or antigravity secrets and talk too much without adequate protection, you'll get lethal attention from shadow government factions and Big Oil. If you know a lot about alien/metaphysical/matrix stuff, then you'll get trouble from those realms rather than the petty human levels, which is both a good and bad thing -- good in that you can more easily thwart it through awareness, bad because they are so damn cunning with their timeline manipulations and abduction mind-programming it's not even funny. Whatever game you play, know the rules and risks and play it well.
Avoiding monitoring is only worthwhile if you can avoid it without sacrificing everything else. So the question to ask is, "am I potentially being monitored right now? Yes...okay, is there anything I can do to thwart it? If yes, then I'll do it. If no, then I say 'f*ck em' and hustle."
Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.
