It looks like CISPA is dead. For now.

Courtesy of US News:  

CISPA is all but dead, again. 

The controversial cybersecurity bill known as the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act, which passed the House of Representatives last week, will almost certainly be shelved by the Senate, according to a representative of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. 

The bill would have allowed the federal government to share classified "cyber threat" information with companies, but it also provided provisions that would have allowed companies to share information about specific users with the government. Privacy advocates also worried that the National Security Administration would have gotten involved. 

"We're not taking [CISPA] up," the committee representative says. "Staff and senators are divvying up the issues and the key provisions everyone agrees would need to be handled if we're going to strengthen cybersecurity. They'll be drafting separate bills." 

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., chairman of the committee, said the passage of CISPA was "important," but said the bill's "privacy protections are insufficient."

I somehow do not believe that this attempt to control free speech on the internet will go away anytime soon, but I think as long as we remain vigilant and  are willing to express our displeasure en masse, we might be able to block attempts to pass anything at all, or ensure that whatever is passed will NOT take away our rights to communicate freely or strip us of our privacy rights.