it's a startup and their policy may not have been well thought out. like maybe they forgot to include "don't make deep fake nudes of other users" and then they realize that and add that policy I think it's fine to apply it retroactively
imo the way that should work is to adopt the new policy, remove the violation content, and then going forward have bans as a consequence for posting new content, but not retroactively ban accounts who posted something that wasn't against ToS when posted
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