When anything is free, you are the product.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

1.] What do you make of ISPs ability to spy on your history and even sell it?

1a. Everyone on the internet collects data. FBI Director James Comey says that absolute privacy does not exist in the US anymore.
1b. If not handcuffed by law, any collected data will be sold.
1c. The Holy Grail is an open internet.

2.] As @Pickernel has pointed out in a recent post it isn't so much congress's fault , more more the ISP's do you agree?

2a. ISPs are businesses. The buzzword on the internet is monetization.
2b. I would not fault either Congress or the ISPs. Socialist America loves its Congress to be the custodian of the deep nanny state. Most Americans don't want freedom; they want security

3.] Does this show how censorship/privacy proof projects like SteemIt has value going forward into the future ? It helps that SteemIt remains ad-free.

3a.Steemit is censorship proof but not privacy proof : everything is available on the blockchain about whatever an individual has chosen to expose
benign community purposes, why would I not monetize it by collecting & sharing the data?
The issue is the data; not the ads
on @Steemit. This true value of blockchain is that this data transparency is implicity understood by users upfront. 3b. Ad free does not imply that no one will attempt to collect data. @Steemit is infested with bots: spam (@cheetah, @anyx), Twitter (@twittebot) & the whimsical downvoting whale bots. If I spent the effort to create a bot for