Mission
& Issues
Mission
& Issues
Mission
Little Tech Association works to make it easier to start, build, and grow in the digital economy — expanding access to capital and customers, freeing talent to move where their best ideas are, and right-sizing rules so small teams aren't crushed by compliance costs built for giants. We champion open systems, open standards, and open infrastructure, so the tools people rely on work together and no gatekeeper decides who gets a shot. When markets stay open and competitive, the best products win — on merit, not market power.
Defending Free Markets
Competition drives the digital economy, but the free market only works when the laws and regulations governing competition are enforced. Right now a handful of dominant platforms write their own rules, deciding which businesses reach customers and which get buried. LTA fights to end self-preferencing, open app marketplaces, and stop the gatekeeping that lets giants pick winners and losers. LTA presses regulators and lawmakers to halt monopolistic practices where entrenched middlemen rake in rents, drive up costs, and crush competition. Founders should win by building better products, not by buying permission from incumbents.
Empowering Builders
Innovative new ideas often come from entrepreneurs and upstarts, not comfortable incumbents. LTA opposes the non-compete agreements that hold tech workers hostage and supports mobility for engineers, researchers, and founders to pursue their best ideas. LTA pushes to expand access to capital — public and private alike — from giving startups a real shot at the government grants and contracts long reserved for the biggest players to ending "dead zones" for early stage investment. And LTA presses for rules scaled to the company they govern, so small teams aren't buried under compliance costs intended for trillion-dollar incumbents. The goal is simple: make it easier to start, to grow, and to compete.
Freeing Consumers
Consumers should be free to pick the apps, products, and services that work best for them. Too often they’re trapped by Big Tech, stuck in systems that grow more expensive and less helpful as network effects, egress fees, and dark patterns make it hard to leave. LTA pushes for real data portability and against schemes like classroom captivity that lock students and schools inside one company's system. Consumers ought to have the right to repair and modify their own devices, because your device is your property. LTA defends real privacy, with strong encryption and no government-mandated backdoors, and stands up for consumer free speech against abusive lawsuits intended to silence it.
Keeping AI Competitive
The future of AI is being decided right now, and a few giants are racing to lock it up before anyone else gets a seat at the table. We're fighting to stop them. LTA supports open-weight models so startups can build the future instead of renting it from the incumbents, and right-sizing policies governing AI, so entrepreneurs deploying tools aren’t saddled with the same regulations as frontier labs developing foundational models. LTA backs an open AI stack, so trillion-dollar companies can't quietly tax or throttle the companies running on its infrastructure, and workable, and consistent standards that allow people to use trusted AI agents on their behalf across the online ecosystem. Combating tying, gatekeeping, and self-preferencing: this is how we stop dominant players from rigging the game before it even begins.
Advancing Open Systems
The internet should be an open system, not a cluster of gated communities. LTA stands for interoperability, so the tools people rely on work together instead of locking them in. Open standards let consumers switch freely, startups compete, and innovators build without limits. In the same vein, no company, no matter how powerful, should get to copyright or lock away public laws or municipal codes — public goods produced by the government don't belong behind a paywall. Broadly, LTA backs open data infrastructure that gives entrepreneurs a foundation to build on and gives ordinary people the freedom to choose the services that fit their lives.
Mission
Little Tech Association works to make it easier to start, build, and grow in the digital economy — expanding access to capital and customers, freeing talent to move where their best ideas are, and right-sizing rules so small teams aren't crushed by compliance costs built for giants. We champion open systems, open standards, and open infrastructure, so the tools people rely on work together and no gatekeeper decides who gets a shot. When markets stay open and competitive, the best products win — on merit, not market power.
Defending Free Markets
Competition drives the digital economy, but the free market only works when the laws and regulations governing competition are enforced. Right now a handful of dominant platforms write their own rules, deciding which businesses reach customers and which get buried. LTA fights to end self-preferencing, open app marketplaces, and stop the gatekeeping that lets giants pick winners and losers. LTA presses regulators and lawmakers to halt monopolistic practices where entrenched middlemen rake in rents, drive up costs, and crush competition. Founders should win by building better products, not by buying permission from incumbents.
Empowering Builders
Innovative new ideas often come from entrepreneurs and upstarts, not comfortable incumbents. LTA opposes the non-compete agreements that hold tech workers hostage and supports mobility for engineers, researchers, and founders to pursue their best ideas. LTA pushes to expand access to capital — public and private alike — from giving startups a real shot at the government grants and contracts long reserved for the biggest players to ending "dead zones" for early stage investment. And LTA presses for rules scaled to the company they govern, so small teams aren't buried under compliance costs intended for trillion-dollar incumbents. The goal is simple: make it easier to start, to grow, and to compete.
Freeing Consumers
Consumers should be free to pick the apps, products, and services that work best for them. Too often they’re trapped by Big Tech, stuck in systems that grow more expensive and less helpful as network effects, egress fees, and dark patterns make it hard to leave. LTA pushes for real data portability and against schemes like classroom captivity that lock students and schools inside one company's system. Consumers ought to have the right to repair and modify their own devices, because your device is your property. LTA defends real privacy, with strong encryption and no government-mandated backdoors, and stands up for consumer free speech against abusive lawsuits intended to silence it.
Keeping AI Competitive
The future of AI is being decided right now, and a few giants are racing to lock it up before anyone else gets a seat at the table. We're fighting to stop them. LTA supports open-weight models so startups can build the future instead of renting it from the incumbents, and right-sizing policies governing AI, so entrepreneurs deploying tools aren’t saddled with the same regulations as frontier labs developing foundational models. LTA backs an open AI stack, so trillion-dollar companies can't quietly tax or throttle the companies running on its infrastructure, and workable, and consistent standards that allow people to use trusted AI agents on their behalf across the online ecosystem. Combating tying, gatekeeping, and self-preferencing: this is how we stop dominant players from rigging the game before it even begins.
Advancing Open Systems
The internet should be an open system, not a cluster of gated communities. LTA stands for interoperability, so the tools people rely on work together instead of locking them in. Open standards let consumers switch freely, startups compete, and innovators build without limits. In the same vein, no company, no matter how powerful, should get to copyright or lock away public laws or municipal codes — public goods produced by the government don't belong behind a paywall. Broadly, LTA backs open data infrastructure that gives entrepreneurs a foundation to build on and gives ordinary people the freedom to choose the services that fit their lives.
Mission
& Issues
Mission
Little Tech Association works to make it easier to start, build, and grow in the digital economy — expanding access to capital and customers, freeing talent to move where their best ideas are, and right-sizing rules so small teams aren't crushed by compliance costs built for giants. We champion open systems, open standards, and open infrastructure, so the tools people rely on work together and no gatekeeper decides who gets a shot. When markets stay open and competitive, the best products win — on merit, not market power.
Defending Free Markets
Competition drives the digital economy, but the free market only works when the laws and regulations governing competition are enforced. Right now a handful of dominant platforms write their own rules, deciding which businesses reach customers and which get buried. LTA fights to end self-preferencing, open app marketplaces, and stop the gatekeeping that lets giants pick winners and losers. LTA presses regulators and lawmakers to halt monopolistic practices where entrenched middlemen rake in rents, drive up costs, and crush competition. Founders should win by building better products, not by buying permission from incumbents.
Empowering Builders
Innovative new ideas often come from entrepreneurs and upstarts, not comfortable incumbents. LTA opposes the non-compete agreements that hold tech workers hostage and supports mobility for engineers, researchers, and founders to pursue their best ideas. LTA pushes to expand access to capital — public and private alike — from giving startups a real shot at the government grants and contracts long reserved for the biggest players to ending "dead zones" for early stage investment. And LTA presses for rules scaled to the company they govern, so small teams aren't buried under compliance costs intended for trillion-dollar incumbents. The goal is simple: make it easier to start, to grow, and to compete.
Freeing Consumers
Consumers should be free to pick the apps, products, and services that work best for them. Too often they’re trapped by Big Tech, stuck in systems that grow more expensive and less helpful as network effects, egress fees, and dark patterns make it hard to leave. LTA pushes for real data portability and against schemes like classroom captivity that lock students and schools inside one company's system. Consumers ought to have the right to repair and modify their own devices, because your device is your property. LTA defends real privacy, with strong encryption and no government-mandated backdoors, and stands up for consumer free speech against abusive lawsuits intended to silence it.
Keeping AI Competitive
The future of AI is being decided right now, and a few giants are racing to lock it up before anyone else gets a seat at the table. We're fighting to stop them. LTA supports open-weight models so startups can build the future instead of renting it from the incumbents, and right-sizing policies governing AI, so entrepreneurs deploying tools aren’t saddled with the same regulations as frontier labs developing foundational models. LTA backs an open AI stack, so trillion-dollar companies can't quietly tax or throttle the companies running on its infrastructure, and workable, and consistent standards that allow people to use trusted AI agents on their behalf across the online ecosystem. Combating tying, gatekeeping, and self-preferencing: this is how we stop dominant players from rigging the game before it even begins.
Advancing Open Systems
The internet should be an open system, not a cluster of gated communities. LTA stands for interoperability, so the tools people rely on work together instead of locking them in. Open standards let consumers switch freely, startups compete, and innovators build without limits. In the same vein, no company, no matter how powerful, should get to copyright or lock away public laws or municipal codes — public goods produced by the government don't belong behind a paywall. Broadly, LTA backs open data infrastructure that gives entrepreneurs a foundation to build on and gives ordinary people the freedom to choose the services that fit their lives.