The results are in. Global Voices rounds up responses, including a downbeat assessment from Hoder:
The pro-reform youth are so disappointed and depressed. Nobody knows what will happen next. But Khamenei is the biggest winner of this game.
PS: GV has also been keeping an eye on the Chinese Internet censorship story. Deborah MacKinnon's item on how bloggers are trying to outwit the system produced an interesting response from one commenter. Assuming it's genuine (and there's no reason to believe otherwise) this message he received from a young Chinese reader is a reminder that Orwell's memory hole is still with us:
A lot of people in China know about tiananmen massacre but they daren’t say it, and Chinese government hide everything don’t let anyone know it. I was even there at 1989 and saw the procession of the students and I was a kid at that time, but I don’t ever know about the massacre till a few days ago, coz they banned everything and deleted everything about the event...
