How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions
THE SO WHAT
Users routing around Anthropic’s China blocks via proxies and fake IDs shows that geo-fencing is a speed bump, not a wall, for high-demand models. If you operate globally, treat compliance controls as partially adversarial systems — you need monitoring, abuse playbooks, and regional risk budgets, not just IP blocks.
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