Freezenet Official Podcast

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for August 2021. This month’s episode is entitled “Censor Wars: Episode 2: Attack of  the Liberals” after the Liberals unveiling of their Online Harms paper.   We also cover the story of Bill C-10 dying on the order-paper due to an  election.  Also, we cover the Canadian election by analyzing a number  of...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for July 2021. This month's episode is entitled "Free Speech Survives!" because Bill C-10 is seemingly destined to die on the orderpaper. Also this month, we offer an update to the ongoing story surrounding NSO Group as well as a development in the Article 17 debate going on in Europe. We also cover all the usual music and video game...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  June 2021. This episode is entitled “Censor Wars: Episode 1: Battle for  Free Speech” after the continued effort to push through Bill C-10. Also, we cover the CRTC decision that says that you clearly don’t pay  enough for Internet and cell phone service as well as an update to the  story about the RCMP’s use o...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  May 2021.  This episode is entitled “Step Away from the Internet” after  the effort to push through the speech regulation bill, C-10. This episode also covers Bidens push to waive the COVID-19 vaccine  patent protection and the malware that impacted 128 million iPhones. In addition to that, we also cover all t...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for April 2021. This month’s episode is entitled "Amazon Won" after Amazon successfully crushing it's employee's efforts to unionize. Also this month, we cover the growing criticism of the Rogers Shaw merger as well as the massive half a billion user security incident at Facebook. We also cover all the usual music and video game revie...

Welcome to the Public version of the Freezenet official podcast for  March 2021.  This month’s episode is entitled “Who Needs Some Real  Competition?” after the story of the potential Rogers Shaw merger deal. We also cover Facebook folding to the link tax law pressure as well as the network neutrality ruling being made in California. Additionally, we cover all the usual music and vi...

Welcome to the public version of episode 28 of the Freezenet official  podcast for February 2021. This month’s episode is entitled “Free  Market for Me, but Not for Thee” after the drama surrounding the  SubReddit, WallstreetBets and the Gamestop stock. In addition to that, we also cover the escalating tensions  surrounding the link tax in Canada and Australia.  Also, we c...

Welcome to the public version of episode 27 of the Freezenet official podcast for January 2021. This month’s episode is entitled "Biden Begins" because of the beginning of Joe Biden's presidency. This month, we cover the online fallout of Donald Trumps incited terrorist attack on January 6th.  We also cover the fallout hitting Parler in response to the attack.  In addition to that, we co...

Welcome to the public version of episode 26 of the Freezenet official podcast for December, 2020. This month’s episode is entitled “The Year End Special” because it's the last episode for 2020.  As a result, we count down all the big stories of the year, the best music and games of the year, and even the largest security incidences that occurred this year. In addition to that, we also have th...

Welcome to the public version of episode 25 of the Freezenet official podcast for November, 2020. This month’s episode is entitled “The Big Two Five” because we have now released 25 episodes of this podcast. This month, we obviously cover the US general election.  This is because it has such big implications on everything including the world of technology.  In addition to that, we cover...

Welcome to the public version of episode 24 of the Freezenet official  podcast for October, 2020.  This month’s episode is entitled “Breaking  the Net” thanks to a number of stories that have surfaced this month. This month, we cover the judge putting a halt to the TikTok ban.  In  addition to this, we cover the FCC’s efforts to gut Section 230.  Also  in our cov...

Welcome to the public version of the 23rd episode of the Freezenet official podcast for September, 2020. This month’s episode is entitled  “TikTok, Oracle, Walmart, Camera, TV”.  The title is inspired by the war  between Trump and video sharing social media platform, TikTok. We also cover the story of Facebook threatening to pull out of Europe  as well as offer an update on the...

This month’s episode is entitled “There’s a Banned App for That”.   The title is inspired by the war between Apple, Fortnite/Epic, and  WordPress in the app store. This month’s episode also covers the continuing war between Trump and  social media.  Additionally, we cover the continued war between Big  Publishing and the Internet Archive. Also this month, we cover all...

This month’s episode is entitled “Censor Wars: Episode 1: The  American Mennace” because of the continued war between Trump and social  media. In this episode, we also cover the ongoing encryption debate with  Section 230 being dragged into the middle of it all.  We also cover the  major Cloudflare outage.  In addition, we even cover Uber’s loss in the  Canadian...

This month’s episode is entitled “how Do You Solve a Problem Like  Donald Trump?” thanks to the war between Trump and social media. For this episode, we also cover AT&T introducing fast lanes and,  as a result, start to break down network neutrality in the US.  We also  cover big US publishers suing the Internet Archive for copyright  infringement. In addition to this,...

This month’s episode is entitled “Ceiling Hacker is Watching You  Authenticate” due to all the hacking that took place that month.  This  includes the hacking of a law firm that represents US president, Donald  Trump. This month, we also cover the German court ruling that said that the  spying of foreign nationals is unconstitutional as well as the push for  the Canad...

This month’s episode is entitled “All the News That’s Fit for Deletion” because of the push for a Link Tax in several countries. In addition to this, we cover what Drew Curtis called a “dire”  situation on his website, Fark.com.  Also, we cover the apparent closure  of Slyck.com. We also cover all the usual music and video game reviews as well as  the rather strange message of...

This month’s episode is entitled “Flattening the Accountability” for,  really, a host of different reasons.  This includes the fraudulent  copyright takedowns flying around and the Canadian government reaction  to the privacy implications of NAFTA 2.0 among other things. In addition to the Canadian government reaction to NAFTA 2.0, we also  talk about the ongoing privacy c...

This month’s episode is entitled “In Your Face Privacy” due to the  growing controversy surrounding Clearview AI and facial recognition  technology. In addition to this, we talk about efforts by both Canada and the US  to clamp down on online free speech.  Another story we cover is the GDPR  probe into online dating sites after some were caught selling personal  infor...

This month’s episode is entitled “Copyright In Crisis” due to observers now saying that we are living in a copyright crisis. Additionally, this month, we talk about the Google v. Oracle court  cast which asks whether or not an API can be copyrighted.  Another story  covered is the growing censorship creep spreading across Canada.  Also,  we talk about how police can determ...

This month’s episode is entitled the Year End Special because we’ve reached the end of yet another year. This month, we talk about the RIAA legal win over Cox Communications.   Additionally, we cover the ongoing Facebook encryption debate.  Also,  we touch on the GoldTV case which could bring Internet censorship into  Canada. Also this month, we talk about all the music an...

This episode is entitles “1 Year of Freezenet!” because we have  officially made it to year 2 of this podcast.  Here’s to another  exciting year of the official Freezenet podcast! Besides talking about the big milestone, this month, we talk about  the continuing escalation of the war on encryption.  This time, Facebook  seems to have decided to step things up by sayin...

This episode is entitled “Removing Safety For Your Safety” because of  efforts to undermine encryption under the guise of protecting public  safety and security. This month, we continue our coverage of the Canadian election by  extending our analysis to all the other party platforms we didn’t cover  in the previous month. We also discuss the implications of some of the  co...

This episode is entitled “It’s Election Season in Canada” because Canada is currently going through a federal election. This month, we, of course, cover the Canadian election through the  lens of digital rights.  Also, we cover the major data leak Facebook  suffered, and UK MPs considering a ban of selling loot boxes to  children. In addition to this, we also feature an exclusi...

This episode is entitled the Big One Oh because we’ve made it to episode 10 already!  Can you believe that? This month, we cover the massive story of the Capital One data breach  which saw 100 million accounts compromised.  We also cover the war on  encryption expanding in the US and Canada.  Also, we had to talk about  the huge fine handed down by the FTC to Facebook...