How to get rid of the bloody Chinese pages when starting browsing the Internet?

Why isn't the internet centralized?

• I know the internet is just a connection of junk, and pages, and files, and stuff. But I always imagined that there is a center - a website-like center that would serve as a starting point for any navigation session. Now, after around 4 years of having an internet connection, I find that google is the starting point of anything we do on the internet, and there is no such thing as a center, or a place where you can actually do stuff ... I mean, yeah, there's facebook and 4chan and such, but these ... they just get boring after a while ... :| Does anyone know if such a place exists? I know, I know, this question sounds weird already, but I just want to know! Thank you! :) Jake

• Answer:

  The growing centralization of the Internet -- manifested in our increasing reliance on "The Cloud" -- threatens the nature of our relationship with the technologies that shape modern life. The user interface changes that invariably enrage some contingent of users are just a trivial edge of the total space that describes the consequences of relinquishing control over our software to large commercial enterprises. There are entire categories of larger consequences. Some are the kinds of low-probability, high-consequence risks that James Fallows wrote about in his November 2011 article on his personal experience with his wife's hacked Gmail account. Others are higher-order in nature, such as the way companies like Facebook and Google deal with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. There's also the issue of algorithmic censorship, which can take distinctly non-obvious forms. An interesting example, as Ben Fino-Radin reports, is YouTube's removal of a video that incorporates spammy metadata into its conception as artwork.