According to a post on Hacker News, a developer reported being banned from Claude Code twice. The first account was suspended within an hour—they suspect because they used a VPN. A second signup attempt, without VPN but using the same credit card, was also banned. Support responded with only a generic message citing a usage policy violation. The developer, who had only been using Claude Code for routine tasks like summarizing files and refactoring code, is asking the tech community for help understanding what happened.

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