Freezenet Official Podcast

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for September, 2023. This month's episode is entitled "Going on Hiatus" because, well, I'm taking this podcast onto a hiatus. After putting in the time to try and make this a great podcast, the low response compared to something like YouTube has been noticeable for some time. As I got further and further behind on ot...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for August, 2023.  This month's episode is called "Bill C-18 - Failure in Progress" after Facebook dropping news links in response to this legislation. This months podcast also features stories about Pascale St-Onge taking over as the new Heritage Minister, the government and media attempting to score cheap political poi...

Welcome to the public version of the FreezeNet Official Podcast for July, 2023.  This month's episode is entitled "Appetite for Self Destruction" after the media's efforts to basically blow themselves up with Bill C-18. This episode also covers the government side of things as well as finishing off the special coverage of the Bill C-18 senate hearings.  We also cover the JCPA as...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for June, 2023.  This month's episode is entitled the "Bill C-18 Senate Hearing Special 2" because we continue our in-depth coverage of what was said within the senate during the Bill C-18 hearings. This episode also covers the ultimate passage Bill C-18 as well as the meltdown going on at Reddit. This episode also featu...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for May, 2023. This month's episode is entitled "The Bill C-18 Senate Hearing Special" because we take you inside the senate hearings on Canada's link tax legislation. Also this month, we cover the terrible passage of Bill C-11, the possibility that Wikipedia could be blocked in the UK, and PornHub blocking Utah IP a...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for April, 2023.  This month's episode is entitled "The Censorship Will Continue Until the Internet Improves" after the developments of Bill C-11 leading up to it arriving at the Senate for final approval. This month's episode also covers Bill C-18 (Canada's Link Tax) making it to the Senate study.  This along wi...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for March, 2023.  This month’s episode is entitled “Sanity Has Left the Building” because of the incredibly ridiculous developments in the Bill C-18 story. This month also features stories such as the TikTok moral panic story, the Bill C-11 senate fix rejection story, and the massive story of Mastodon hitting 10 million users. The pod...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for February, 2023. This month's episode is entitled "404 - Section 230 Not Found" because of the US Supreme Court Challenge to Section 230 in the US. This month's episode also covers the developments surrounding Bill C-11, Bill C-18, and the Rogers Shaw merger. This month's episode also covers all the usual music, video games, and vi...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet Official Podcast for January 2023. This month's episode is entitled "Twitters Fire is Out of Control" because of all the chaos and destruction being brought onto Twitter thanks to Elon Musk's bad decision making. This month's episode also features stories about the mass layoffs at even more tech companies and the increasing warnings from the US to Can...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet Official Podcast for December, 2022. This month's episode is entitled "The Big Five Oh / Year End Special" because it is not only the 50th episode for this podcast, but also the year end special as well. A double special if you will. The final episode of the year features the last parts of the Bill C-11 Senate hearings as well as some updates that hap...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet Official Podcast for November, 2022. This episode is entitled "The Bill C-11 Senate Hearing Special 3" because we are still working our way through the Senate hearings. This episode makes it most of the way through the remaining hearings. In addition to that, we also cover the insanity surrounding the Elon Musk Twitter acquisition and the fallout alon...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet Official Podcast for October, 2022. This month's episode is entitled "The Bill C-11 Senate Hearing Special 2" because of the ongoing crucial Bill C-11 senate hearings. In this episode, we also cover the massive witness intimidation scandal that has rocked those same hearings as well as a number of updates regarding the Bill C-18 legislation (link tax)...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet Official Podcast for September, 2022. This month's episode is named "The Bill C-11 Senate Hearing Special" because of the heavy focus on those hearings this month (they are getting a LOT of attention). Along with the Bill C-11 hearings, we are also covering the racism accusation scandal as well as the new impossible to comply with California law that...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for August, 2022. This month's episode is entitled "The Incredible Growing Cell Phone Bill" because of the ongoing efforts to have Rogers and Shaw merge into one large super corporation. It's also partly names after the efforts by Telus to slap customers with a 1.5% fee for the "privilege" of paying via credit card. This month's episo...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet Official Podcast for  July, 2022. This month’s episode is entitled “It’s Just a Piece of Paper” because of both the Canadian Bill C-11 story and the degrading  situation in the US with the overturning of Roe V Wade. This episode also covers the fiasco that is the Twitter vs Elon Musk court battle that came out of the buyout deal. This episod...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  June, 2022. This month’s episode is entitled “This is Not What Democracy  Sounds Like” thanks to the story about the secret lawmaking process  where amendments to Bill C-11 in Committee were kept secret from the  public. While we cover the Bill C-11 more extensively, we also cover the  story of Texas’ eff...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for May, 2022. This month's episode is entitled "That's Musked Up" because of Elon Musk attempting to buy Twitter and having that deal start to collapse shortly after. In addition to this, we cover the Canadian stories surrounding the social media censorship bill (Bill C-11) and developments with the Canadian link tax law (Bill C-18)....

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  April 2022. This months episode is entitled “Censor Wars: Episode 4 – A  New Crackdown” after the introduction of link taxes in Canada. This months episode also covers the media and governments  misinformation campaign on Bill C-11, and the government blindsiding  Canadians with copyright term extension buried...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  March 2022. This month’s episode is entitled “Taunting the Nuclear  Monkey” after the Russian war criminal, Vladimir Putin. We talk about  the implications of the sanctions from a technological standpoint among  other things. This month’s episode also focuses on a Liberal MP’s meltdown after  seeing valid...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  February, 2022. This month’s episode is entitled “Canada Makes History”  after it invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time. We also cover the latest antitrust developments of big tech as well  as the Canadian Liberal’s efforts to move forward with their social  media censorship bill (Bill C-11). We also...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  January, 2022. This episode is entitled “Governments, Start Your  Antitrust Suits” after the huge wave of antitrust action we saw  throughout the US and even across the world. In this episode we also cover the massive privacy fines hitting large  tech companies. We also cover an update to the trial of Julian A...

Welcome to the public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  December, 2021. This episode is entitled “The Year End Special” as we  wrap up what we all saw throughout the year. This episode also contains  all the makings of a normal episode as well. This episode discusses the US threatening trade tariffs with Canada  over the Digital Services Tax. We also talk about how...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  November 2021. This month’s episode is entitled “Censor Wars: Episode 3:  Revenge of the Liberals” over the renewed effort for the Canadian  Liberal government to push through their war on the open Internet. Also this month, we cover the recent Denuvo DRM scandals and the twin  threats to the Internet from bot...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  October 2021. This month’s episode is entitled “A Consultation Ignored  is a Consultation Denied” after the Canadian consultation on online  harms. It’s basically widely expected to be ignored as of this podcast. In this episode, we dive in to what the submissions actually had to  say – at least the submission...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for September 2021. This month’s episode is entitled Election Night in Canada for our  unmatched election coverage through the lens of digital rights. In addition to this, we cover the online speech concerns surrounding  the Texas anti-abortion law as well as Apple’s file and message scanning  story. We also cover all t...