The U.S. Senate has blocked the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.

It's weird to see the ACLU and the senate Republicans teaming up to block this against the senate Democrats. Positions on executive power completely switch with the party of the Presidency.

Yay gridlock!<p>Interesting how one week it's a bug, the next week it's a feature.

Notice that this was a battle between pro-business/anti-regulation forces and military/police-state forces. The interests of internet users was, as usual, completely irrelevant.

They were starting to pile on completely unrelated riders, it needed to go regardless of the contents.

Probably because our sketchy senators tried to sneak gun control and abortion amendments into the cybersecurity bill:<p><a href="http://www.securityweek.com/gun-abortion-amendments-stall-senate-cybersecurity-bill" rel="nofollow">http://www.securityweek.com/gun-abortion-amendments-stall-se...</a>

Am I to understand that the reason this bill was blocked was because Obama was for it, thus the Republicans' only move was to block it from coming up for a vote? What kind of bassackwards country am I living in??

yay the government protected us again from the government. oh wait...

The sad thing is, Republicans probably only voted this down to spite president, but Democrats... seriously? What the hell are you doing on the wrong side of your own party platform?

Where can I see a list of all the unrelated riders added to this cybersecurity act? I heard utah senator was trying to get a ban on abortion in there. What i want is github for all these sneaky slithery little laws that make it through the house and senate onto the books. It's so bad now, I don't even know what the law is, it's changing back and forth so fast. It's making everyone a criminal, even retroactively!<p>Drugs.. Legal! Illegal! Abortion.. Legal! Illegal! Copying a floppy, owning a lobster, downloading a file, braiding hair without a license, filming a cop.<p>I don't know american law and I live here.