No, because the moral character or intentions of the people running TikTok have absolutely no bearing on whether or not that data is available to the CCP. I don't begrudge anyone working with what they've got, but I'm not going to play stupid.
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The reason to stop using TikTok is a tremendous amount of personal data that simply cannot be shielded from the CCP. That's it. Accusations of xenophobia are disingenuous, all the more so when used in the service of a near-perfectly ethnically homogenous regime.
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As repeatedly pointed out by technologists, TikTok's use of AWS does not limit where that data winds up. Even from a usability perspective alone, it would make no sense to have US devices speaking directly to Chinese servers. WaPo missed the mark re: understanding the tech.
End of conversation
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