> Nothing is stopping X from complying with EU regulations to make it available to you.
Given the personalities involved, I'd wager he's doing it out of spite than for any actual legal justification.
...though if there was an actual legal risk then I'll agree the economics probably don't bear-out the risks - as someone who identifies as European I'll admit that Europeans generally pay far less money for tech/software/apps/services than Americans do[1]; salaries in Europe are also significantly below their US equivalents: paying $200/mo for OpenAI's service is a much harder sell to a London or Berlin-based SWE on €90k/yr than when you're a Bay Area type on $300k/yr.
[1] e.g. If you can take Apple at their word, the EU accounts for 7% of their App Store revenue: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/apple-says-eu-represents-7...
Besides, anyone in the EU who really wanted to use it can just use a VPN service.
