Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user says their Claude Free account, casually registered with Gmail about three years ago and always used in Chinese, has never been banned, guessing free accounts are not worth targeting.

The author wonders who the users still using Claude in mainland China without being banned actually are, given how many accounts Anthropic has suspended.

A user's Claude account of over three years was banned before National Day, breaking a video production pipeline built over half a year, now rebuilt as a fully autonomous agent workflow using grokbot, sol6.1 and gemini.

A post aimed at users whose Claude Code accounts were banned suggests a new approach and asks whether Grok bot can meet their needs.

The author argues Claude Code bans depend on where a user physically is and on enterprise control, not where a device was purchased, calling the origin-based reading a misreading of policy.

A user filed an appeal today for a banned Claude Max account and asked whether others have appealed successfully and had accounts restored.

Five jokes mock how fast Claude bans accounts and how accurately it identifies Chinese users, with Singaporean users banned along the way.

With everyone's Claude accounts banned, a group member proposed accessing Claude through an overseas Mac, saying code files stay local with no IP-hopping risk.

A user asks whether Anthropic will stop banning Claude accounts once it goes public, reflecting anxiety amid the wave of bans.

The author says they too rely on a relay service because of their Opus 5.5 habit, and recommends one that takes in users banned by Claude.

The author argues that every anti-ban strategy on X is useless except physically placing a Mac outside China, and that isolating from mainland China networks is the only way.

The author says a 2023 account paid via App Store was banned instantly and appeals failed after asking why authoritarian states can catch up to top models via distillation, so they moved to GPT and DeepSeek.