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 other projects, it became a question of whether or not it was worth it to continue. This was before I contacted a consultant to talk about the YouTube channel. He pretty much confirmed what I had suspected all along.
So, I thought I'd spend this last episode explaining the work flow for the podcast, how much effort it is to make this in the first place, the results it got, and why I came to this conclusion. It's a short episode to say the least which would explain the short turnaround time this episode. I'm not closing the door entirely on podcasting, but it doesn't make much sense to continue it on at this point in time.
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 points with the Yellowknife wildfires in this debate.
Additionally, this episode also covers updates on the US KOSA legislation and the UK Online Safety Bill as well.
This episode additionally covers all the usual music and video game reviews as well. All this and more on this months podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 well as a TikToker getting upset at ITV News in Britain.
In addition to that, we also cover all the usual music and video game reviews. All of this and more on this month's episode!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 features all the usual music and video game reviews. All this and more on this months podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 addresses.
This along with all the usual music and video game reviews and video uploads. All this and more on this months podcast.
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 with the disappointing news of the Rogers Shaw merger being completed.
This month's episode also features all the usual music and video game reviews. All this and more on this month's podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 podcast also covers all the usual music and video game reviews. All this and more on this month’s podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 video's. All this and more on this months episode!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 Canada about Bill C-11, Bill C-18, and the Digital Services Tax. This along with the white paper from the CCIA.
This episode also features many other stories, all the usual music and video game reviews, and more.
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 happened after those hearings wrapped.
Additionally, this episode features the pair of political scandals facing a Liberal MP as we cover the Bill C-18 Link Tax story. Also, we cover the continued destruction of Twitter at the hands of Elon Musk.
With all of that, we also cover all the usual music and video game reviews.
Since this is the year end special, we also look back at 2022, the year that was. We count down the top 10 video games and music tracks we reviewed this year. Also, we cover the top 10 stories of the year.
All this and more on this month's podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 along with being able to successfully call out the Canada Media Fund of all organizations.
This episode also features a new track from Psy'Aviah called "OK".
Also, we cover all the usual music and video game reviews too. All this and more on this months podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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).
This episode also covers all of the usual music and video game reviews. All this and more on this month's episode!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 could see the future of websites in that state get put at risk.
We also note the addition of our brand new vlog, cover several other stories as well as all the usual music and video game reviews. We even cover the curious story about how a car rental company thought someone drove over 500KPH for three days straight. All this and more on this month's podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 episode also talks about Bill C-11 and Facebooks notice that they are now no longer paying to link to news sites.
This episode also features all the usual music and video game reviews as well as a story about why it can be a bad idea for a lawyer to brag about winning in a court case. All this and more on this month's podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 episode also features some bonus content in the form of a recent Psy’Aviah EP/Maxi release. So, another reason to take a listen!
This episode also covers all the usual music and video game reviews as well as a story about when not to use stock photography. All this and more on this month’s podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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’ efforts to ban social media moderation as well as Canada’s Innovation Minister finally got off of his lazy butt and tabled privacy reform.
We also cover all the usual music and video game reviews as well as the story about how someone was dumb enough to perform burnouts in front of a police station. All this and more on this month’s podcast.
On a side note, I figured out how to incorporate other clips into a single podcast. So, this episode also showcases this newfound skill (it was done in Audacity, so no, it wasn’t perfectly straight forward to pull this off, but it is doable after some figuring out).
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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). We also cover the explosive story from the US of the leaked draft decision to overturn Roe V Wade.
We also cover all the usual music and video game reviews. We even cover the story about how one lawyer says that frivolous lawsuits don't exist. All this and more on this month's podcast.
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 in Budget 2022.
This month’s podcast also features all the usual music and video game reviews as well as how dial up can encourage students to get the COVID-19 vaccine. All this and more on this month’s podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 criticism hit Bill C-11 hard as well as the ending of the invocation of the Emergencies Act.
This episode also talks about all the usual video game video’s, video game reviews, music reviews, and how autocorrect managed to trigger a police response. All this and more on this month’s podcast!
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.
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 cover all the usual music and video game reviews as well as an interesting case for what happens when one ship builder finds out the cables are too short. All this and more on this month’s podcast.
If you'd like a transcript of this month's episode, you can head on over to Freezenet.ca and check out the official page for this episode.