Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A blogger whose Claude account was banned says it was restored in 22 hours with an apology after they stated they were Chinese in the appeal, as Anthropic restricts regions rather than nationality.

A post asks how many people subscribe to Claude or Codex and invites users to share the longest-lived Claude account, asking whether anyone has used Claude for months without a ban.

A user made the lyrics, music and MV for a song with Claude Code, then complained the account was banned right after topping up, joking that Claude wrote the song and also issued the ban.

A user says an overseas company's enterprise Claude account was banned, affecting the whole company's work, and remarks that the platform's risk controls are hard to fight.

The author argues the ban was not about boasting but a gun in a photo triggering Anthropic's policy against developing or designing weapons, and warns against using a company account for personal stunts.

A user had Claude write lyrics, compose music and make a music video for a "Claude ban song" mocking accounts being suspended right after users pay.

A user says frequent long-term use of Claude's CoWork feature got seven or eight accounts banned, leaving them unable to use it and trying Notion instead.

The author says a Claude account ban left them panicked, so they began building redundant failover for models and harnesses to make AI workflows commercially reliable.

The author cites Anthropic's $16.8B Q3 revenue and adjusted profit alongside 11.4M accounts banned in H1 and a 10.5% appeal success rate, calling the bans customer-structure pruning before an IPO.

The author asks whether a US citizen traveling in China who never opened Claude but clicked a tracked email from Anthropic, which is not a violation in theory, would still likely get banned.

A user complains that paid Claude accounts are being banned without any known trigger and calls on Anthropic to stop the practice.

A post with an image asks whether Musk was ever banned back when he used Claude.