> I don’t mind when people take a stance, even if their methods aren’t perfect and it may inconvenience myself personally.

The problem is that not only their methods "aren't perfect", but completely ineffective.

If you are posting on a public social network, your data will be available to the public, one way or another. The whole protest becomes a "performance art" kind of thing: it might be useful for creating awareness, but in most cases the people who will be seeing it are the ones who are aware of it in the first place.