Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A joking reply saying Claude predicted you would ask why you got banned, so it banned you first to avoid the question.

A reply claims that Claude accounts opened in China are banned one after another, urging tibo to step up.

After reinstalling the Claude app and logging into an old account, the user finds it banned and plans to look into appealing.

A reply says their Claude account stays safe as long as it isn't logged in on a computer, but gets banned within ten minutes once it is.

The post argues detecting remote control and clustering accounts is costly and risks banning paying users, so Anthropic prioritizes enterprise relays, distillation clusters and obvious VPN exits.

A user argues that subscribing to Claude through Apple in-app purchase is safer, since a banned account can go to Apple instead of contacting Anthropic.

An article recounts a Chinese programmer who bypassed the firewall, set up accounts and payment, was banned right after starting to use Claude, then re-registered and was banned again.

The author recounts Anthropic's regional, ownership and KYC restrictions on mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, claims mass bans with only about a tenth of appeals succeeding, and calls for shorting the company.

A 35-item joke list exaggerates how fast Claude bans Chinese users, how absurd its detection is, and how futile appeals become.

The author claims Claude's bans target Chinese IPs rather than Chinese users, and that an American traveling to Shenzhen would be banned instantly once their IP leaks.

A commenter says Claude's aggressive account bans created a market for resold accounts, which essentially sells Claude's scarcity.

A reply speculates that Claude account bans stem from domestic data being scraped, part of a ban-cause discussion.