Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The post speculates Anthropic will temporarily admit Chinese users without bans and start banning once it needs profit, likening it to Facebook's ad-review cycles.

A user claims their Claude account was banned after making a China-themed edit of the Thanos IP, and posts a video complaining about it.

The article argues Anthropic's terms turn banned accounts and expired API prepayments into non-refundable breakage revenue booked directly as income.

A user describes a month of using a bot plus a remote computer to organize X feeds, saying Claude Code is far ahead and people accept ban risk to keep using Anthropic.

A developer says GPT feels excessive for their projects, but switching to Claude is troublesome because accounts get banned easily.

Post reports several recent GPT and Claude account bans tied to reverse engineering, including users banned merely for describing TV or set-top-box reversing in chat, and advises using the API instead.

A post lists seven hurdles Chinese users face with foreign software, noting dirty proxy IPs cause X, Instagram and Claude accounts to be banned in turn.

A close read of Anthropic's 300-page English prospectus covering ban, usage-limit and outage clauses plus ties to SpaceX, Google and Amazon, with a Claude account-rules checklist and a reading prompt.

A joking question asking whether recharging a Claude account is what gets it banned.

A joke that developer interviews have shifted from algorithms and data structures to proxies, KYC, appealing Claude bans, and haggling with support over Kimi 429s.

A user notes that when Muse was popular, timelines were full of guides on registering Google and Claude accounts, but nobody mentioned those accounts later getting banned.

A user hit a 403 on Claude at night, found their BandwagonHost IP was banned, and recovered after switching IP, crediting their 2024 account for surviving.