This is a pretty reasonable essay overall, but it contains one misleading bit of rhetorical sleight of hand that I wish had been left out. The "Little Tech" argument, in a nutshell, is that startups are disproportionately harmed by regulation because they're not as capable of bearing significant compliance burdens as large companies, and that regulations that affect startups are therefore very bad because startups are important for economic dynamism etc. This is a good argument! It's such a…