The political views of flags is a instant stop for me. I wonder what radobank thinks of that.
Keep politics out of tech, and especially if you are in the dutch market, it's such a small market, that you would not want something like that to stop a contract in the future, especially seeing that you user to be a zzp'er.
the reality is, the netherlands is a right leaning country, look at the last election results.
A lot of people in the netherlands are very divided about poltics (stop the war, and side with the US, leave the EU, or give more money to ukraine and are pro EU). I hear about this on a daily basis at work. I am quite sick hearing about it. As a hiring manger at one of the big four banks in the netherlands, seeing something like the flags, is a obvious sign as to what side the OP leans towards. Having enough issues on my plate, and not needing another person to start a debate between team members at work is enough for me to stop, and not hire said person. The OP is or was a zzp'er (freelancer) in the netherlands. I think it's a little silly to limit your future contracts by brining in politics into tech. What's the purpose of having it there?
The EU regulations are there to protect the average citizen, not to help the 1% run wild with whatever business idea they have. You personally might not like it, but the non-entrepreneurs, which is most people, are pretty satisfied that the laws in the EU are more focused on the citizen and their rights and not on boosting the shareholders' profits.
> not to help the 1% run wild with whatever business idea they have.
And IMHO regulating 1% doesn't hinder strategic advantages much. Otherwise China would not have came up with DeepSeek models. Regulations are fine, they just have to be "based".
Nothing is stopping X from complying with EU regulations to make it available to you. I'd wager that they most likely lack compute capacity to make it available everywhere, not legal compliance.
> 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.
Libel, from all the models hallucinating things done by whatever your real name is.
I mean, at least I get the advantage of being overshadowed by a famous film director with the same name as me, so nobody's going to assume anything associated with my name is actually about me…
