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Anthropic Begins Mass Blocking of Claude's Accounts for Using VPN

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Without warning, Anthropic began mass blocking the accounts of Claude users who used chatbots through VPNs—as evidenced by a wave of complaints from Hong Kong users on Reddit and X. According to sources in the South China Morning Post, this is due to the US artificial intelligence company tightening controls on its Claude model’s compliance […]

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Anthropic began to block without warning the Claude user accounts, which work with it via VPN, a wave of complaints from Hong Kong ' s musicians rolling around Reddit and X. 3DNews writes about this with reference to the Chinese SCMP portal, which links the new measure to the tightening of the Anthropic monitoring of geographical limitations on its models.

The users of the Claude neuronet from Russia and Hong Kong reported having received letters from the developer II, Anthropic, about blocking their accounts. Many noted that VPN. Russia had used VPN. Neuronet users in the country had begun to receive letters from Anthropic on 1 October. One such letter was published by the head of electronic commerce and transaction II in Yandex, Roman Maresov. The report stated that the company had discovered "s…

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South China Morning Post broke the news in Hong Kong, Hong Kong on Friday, October 2, 2026.
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