When different people prioritize different kinds of assets and threats, it's easy to end up comparing risks that can't be compared or balanced.
For a protester, the assets they need to protect are identity and location history. The threat they need to protect it from is local law enforcement. If a hostile foreign government operated platform such as #TikTok is less likely to volunteer their data to FBI, it's a bit safer for their use case than domestic platforms other than #E2EE messengers. 2/