> Your entire approach here is quite arrogant.

Seriously? There's nothing arrogant about the OP's post which expresses dismay that others as employees (not founders or CEO's) would support having such restrictions put on their careers.

> Consider, for a moment, that the other people on news.yc are not idiots

Parent didn't accuse anyone of being idiots, nor did they frame their concern in terms of intelligence or likewise..

Your post is thought provoking, but you ruin it in those last two sentences.