The geo-blocking of the otherwise banal video highlights Facebook's increasingly difficult position in attempts to grow its business abroad, often in countries whose strict local laws run counter to the company's own stated goal of creating a more "open and connected" world.
The video is banal, a simple three- minute demonstration of the technology as it is meant to work, but it was targeted at a community of technology early adopters.
It's a masterpiece of idiocy and the level of stupidity and arrogance required in order for a video this banal, offensive and unimaginative is almost impressive.
She has almost 100,000 hours of video showing utterly banal scenes people channel-surfing, fighting over the remote control and napping.
Bland, banal and weirdly repulsive, Simon Fujiwara's latest video installation is all surface, plumbing the shallows of a life gone slightly wrong.
And much of the video art was either amateurish, or banal, or both.
Another lyric, "It's a new art form showing people how little we care" is described as "perfectly damning the wave of banal hedonism most recently celebrated by the MTV Video Music Awards", according to Kevin Liedel from Slant Magazine.
(Rosenberg) Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Trisha Baga: Plymouth Rock 2' (closes on Sunday) "Plymouth Rock 2," a single-room installation by a young up-and-comer, consists of seemingly random video scenes projected on one wall and banal, shadow-casting objects on the floor.
(Cotter) Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Trisha Baga: Plymouth Rock 2' (through Jan . 27 "Plymouth Rock 2," a single-room installation by a young up-and-comer consists of seemingly random video scenes projected on one wall and banal, shadow-casting objects on the floor.
The YouTube-ready video imagined Barack Obama's first week in office by borrowing the glittering yet banal qualities of "The City".
Like Victoria Wood, he specialises in the banal poetry of Lancashire life: his routine is cluttered with Rich Tea biscuits and imitation red-leather video cases.
