Cyber-Security Act Stopped?

The new Cyber-Security bill has been rejected due to a lack of votes. Today, the US Senate failed to get the required 60 votes to bring the new Cyber-Security bill it needed for cloture.

So what does this mean? Well first of all, it is a win for the internet. For a while, anyways, we have managed to stave off a poor piece of unneeded legislation, but complacency is the enemy of progress. If we think the war is over, we have already lost. Parts of this legislation will undoubtedly show up again, either as their own pieces of legislation, or as parts of other bills. It has been done before as SOPA/PIPA pieces were being tried as their own bills.

The Internet Defense League has arisen from the ashes of SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and this bill. It is a collection of Internet-savvy companies and people who want to see the internet kept the open and free thing that it is (yes, I am a member). It includes companies such as Cheezburger, Techdirt, Mozilla, Open Media.ca, Imgur, Reddit, and Grooveshark.

Individuals can join as well as companies (this is how I joined).

How is this going to help. By creating pressure on lawmakers, we can work together to keep the internet free, and can even be a force of good, shaming those who would resort to 'cyber-security attacks'. People have a right to be free, and not to be spied on by our governments.

Canada has a harder climb than the US does, with the C-30 bill, but we can still put much pressure on our government (Stephen Harper at the time of this writing) to turn down our own Cyber-Security bill in Canada.

That, and politicians need to show that new legislation is needed, and that our current laws don't already cover things (which they do). We don't NEED the cyber-security legislation. It is just another excuse to take away our rights and freedoms. In Canada, we are guaranteed our right to Privacy by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Law Enforcement officials need a court-issued warrant to be allowed to circumvent that. There is NO reason the police should have the ability to circumvent that without a court order. If there is suspicion of wrong-doing, then a warrant can be issued. If there isn't, then the police have NO RIGHT to invade our privacy.

These legislations are not for the children, or for business. It is slow steps taking us from a democratic society based on freedom and justice to an Orwellian nightmare where we live under the constant supervision of "Big Brother". If things continue the way they are, 1984 will become a reality, not just fiction.

Can someone explain to me how that is "for the children?"