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How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions

2026-06-26 · WIRED

Anthropic keeps building fancier geolocation walls around Claude in China, and users keep finding ladders — from proxy services to fake identities bought on Telegram. Turns out the company that worries most about AI safety can't even secure who gets to use their own chatbot. Nothing says 'we've got AI alignment figured out' like losing a cat-and-mouse game with Telegram resellers.

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