Roger Waters blasted Mark Zuckerberg during a recent press conference, announcing that the Facebook owner had offered him a “huge, huge amount of money” to use his song “Another Brick In The Wall (part two)”.
Zuckerberg had wanted to use the song, which is about the perceptual programming of children, to promote Instagram.
The Pink Floyd songer writer told Zuckerberg -in no uncertain terms- that he could not use the song and noted the deep irony of Facebook wanting to buy and use a song that actually rails against ‘thought control’ and mindless conformity.
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Summit News reports: Waters described the development as part of Zuckerberg’s “insidious movement… to take over absolutely everything.”
Waters read out Facebook’s request, which noted “We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and so necessary today, which speaks to how timeless the work is.”
“And yet, they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram more powerful than it already is,” Waters urged, adding “so that it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out into the general public so the general public can go, ‘What? No. No More.’”
“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 boomed to rapturous applause.
“I will not be a party to this bullsh-t, Zuckerberg,” Waters added.
He then asked “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,” Waters emphasised.
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Following media attention, Waters requested trolls to pile on and call him a hypocrite for posting the video on “Zuckerberg’s crappy censored platform”:
