Well, maybe "totally" was used in the new (absence of) meaning that is used nowadays to totally look cool, as in "I totally like doughnuts" (here "totally" conv

Well, maybe "totally" was used in the new (absence of) meaning that is used nowadays to totally look cool, as in "I totally like doughnuts" (here "totally" conveys nothing more than "really", or any other stopwords). In this case, yes, I agree: the Chinese government "somewhat" or "really" controls Chinese internet, and even probably has its hand on a on/off switch somewhere. But in English and in normal discussions, "totally" means "in totality", or "in the sum and all its parts". Related totalitarism means "control of every part of people's life". We need not to look very far to see an example of a "totally gov-controled internet": North Korea is just like that. But China is not. The sheer number of posts by minute means it cannot be realistically "totally controlled", because automatic filters are easy to circumvent, and human filters are not fast enough. A simple rumour of ex-ex-president Jiang's death would spread like fire and no deleting can stop it. The only way to stop that would be to shut down internet, and /this/ would push everyone in the streets. What I mean is that the Chinese Internet is now a heavyweight social force that is already out of Chinese government control (or anyone else, for that matter). They have to live with it, and adapt themselves.