Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author reads Anthropic's prospectus risk disclosure as a loop where delayed enforcement and re-registration after bans recycle violation revenue.

A user claims Anthropic urgently unbanned a batch of Chinese Claude accounts on its IPO filing day, suspecting it was to make numbers look better.

The post argues that for users behind the GFW, accessing X or YouTube is easy compared with keeping a Claude account alive without being banned.

The user says their Claude account was banned on the 4th and they have been emailing appeals every three days while venting about GPT for a month.

The post claims Anthropic's filing shows revenue from violating users was recognized before banning them, at 5–7% of first-nine-month revenue, with use in unsupported regions counting as a violation.

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.