Below is video and a transcription of the speech that Presearch founder, Colin Pape, made at DogeCon in Vancouver.

Transcript:

Fellow council members;

I deliver this report on the State of Access to Information and Intellectual Property on the 23rd of June.

In 2018, the state of information access is still extremely centralized;

The internet is dominated by one company, Alphabet, which controls the following online properties:

Google — the #1 search engine, with more than 96% market penetration in the US

YouTube — the #1 video publishing platform with more than 70% market penetration

Google Maps — the #1 mapping and local information resource

Google Docs — the #1 file publishing platform

Google’s Chrome is also the #1 browser with more than 60% market share

Plus many others

Social media is dominated by another company, Facebook,

which controls:

the #1 social media platform with more than 2B active users

Instagram — the #1 photo sharing platform with more than 800M active users

Whatsapp — the #1 chat app with more than 1.5B active users

Apple maintains a tight strange hold on the ecosystem that serves it’s 220M users, while Google, through its Android platform serves most of the other 2.5B mobile users