Denouncing Facebook’s “insidious” operating practices, iconic Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters did not mince words in rejecting the social media giant’s request to use his song ‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)’ in an ad campaign.
At a public forum event in support of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in New York last week, Waters held up a sheet of paper and claimed that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered him “a huge amount of money” for permission to use his classic 1979 protest ballad against conformity.
“So it’s a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me… with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money and the answer is, ‘f**k you! No f**king way!’,” Waters said, drawing applause from the crowd.
The mail attributed to Zuckerberg apparently said the song would be used “in the making for a film to promote Instagram.”
The 77-year-old rock legend said he only brought up the letter – which noted that the “timeless” song’s “core sentiment” was still “prevalent and necessary today” – since it was a demonstration of the tech giant’s “insidious movement… to take over absolutely everything.”
“So those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit – in terms of control of the publishing of my songs, I do anyway. So I will not be a party to this bull***t, Zuckerberg,” Waters said.
@Facebook and @finkd wanting to acquire something doesn't mean they always get to
Here's @pinkfloyd 's Roger Waters responding to Mark Zuckerberg wanting to acquire The Wall
When sycophantic gatekeeping #EFFUXR s evolve a spine like in other industries #VR #XR #AR may be one. pic.twitter.com/kwLfr89UYk
— Navdeep Singh Rajwanshi (@TheGameVeda) June 13, 2021
Referring to the platform’s alleged censorship of material related to Assange, Waters said the song would be used to make “Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful” in order to “continue to censor all of us in this room” and prevent Assange’s story from “getting out to the general public.”
Later, in response to a question about whether Facebook should be deleted, Waters said, “How did this little pr**k, who started off going, ‘She’s pretty, we’ll give her a four out of five. She’s ugly, we’ll give her a one’… How the f**k did he get any power in anything?”
“And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world,” added Waters, who had joined Assange’s brother and father at the New York event, which kicked off a month-long US tour to raise awareness of the jailed activist’s predicament.
After video of the remarks was widely shared, Waters doubled down on his statements on Sunday and challenged “trolls” and “pr**ks” to “call me a hypocrite for posting this on Zuckerberg’s crappy censored platform @Facebook now.”
.@petercronau, thank you for paying attention brother. Calling all trolls, come on you pricks, call me a hypocrite for posting this on Zuckerberg’s crappy censored platform @Facebook now. https://t.co/3NYrW7Pw2i
— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) June 12, 2021
Since April 2019, Assange has been incarcerated without bail in the UK’s high-security Belmarsh prison, after being forcibly removed from Ecuador’s London embassy to be extradited to the US.
In January, a London court blocked an extradition request due to concerns over the effect US prison conditions will have on Assange’s mental health.
On the day of his arrest, the US unsealed the Espionage Act indictment against Assange, which had been filed in secret by the Trump administration’s Justice Department in March 2018. Though Joe Biden now occupies the White House, little has changed.
In an interview with RT on Friday, Waters said Assange is “being held up as an example: Keep your mouth shut or this will happen to you. They are trying to kill Julian Assange because he spoke the truth, and it’s disgusting.”
If extradited and convicted, Assange could be handed a sentence amounting to 175 years behind bars.
“We know for sure that he committed no crime. All he did was report the news. If that’s a crime then we should lock up the editorial boards of the New York Times and everyone else… the whole thing is a complete sham,” Waters told RT.
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Endlich mal ein “echter” Gigant der den Mund aufmacht und für die Wahrheit “Julian Assange” kämpft und sich nicht kaufen lässt ❣️
Die Juden sind das grösste Unglück der Welt, wacht endlich auf und werdet wieder zu Nationen.
Jeder für sein eigenes Land, lasst euch nicht einreden es wäre Rassismus!! Alles mit “ismus” deutet auf kranke Hirne die die Menschheit zerstören wollen
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I have managed to get a partial translation for this comment from Gisela: finally a “real” giant who opens his mouth and fights for the truth “Julian Assange” and fight and don’t let yourself be bought. The Jews are the great unlucky of the world, wake up and become nations. I was unable to get a translation for the last part of the comment. 5 stars for Gisela.
Only Britain could have produced such a brilliant original sound from the group called Pink Floyd and no other country came close to Britain during the 1960s for pop and rock music, even some of America’s best groups and singers had to come to Britain in order to find fame because square peg America had nothing to offer them, and what is Zuckerberg compared to Pink Floyd, nothing but a piece of Jewish shit with a lot of money who created an organization called Facebook which spends all of its time spying on naive goyim. Well done Roger Waters.