The actual voice of founders, start-ups, and digital innovators

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.

We fight to end self-preferencing, open app marketplaces, and stop the gatekeeping that lets giants pick winners and losers. Founders should win by building better products, not by buying permission from incumbents.

Innovative new ideas often come from entrepreneurs and upstarts, not comfortable incumbents. We oppose the non-compete agreements that hold tech workers hostage and supports mobility for engineers, researchers, and founders to pursue their best ideas.

We press 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.

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.

We push 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.

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 back an open AI stack, so trillion-dollar companies can't quietly tax or throttle the companies running on its infrastructure, and workable, 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.

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.

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.