The Rolling Stone website added that Waters also referred to FaceMash, the website Zuckerberg set up at Harvard in 2003, to compare the looks of women on campus. "And yet, they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram more powerful than it already is, 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. 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," he read.
"We want to thank you for considering this project. The 77-year-old Waters read out from a letter he said had come from Facebook, according to a report in . Roger Waters has been praised by fans for rejecting Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg 's request to use one of his tracks in an Instagram campaign. co-founder Mark) Zuckerberg," Waters said, while interacting with the media at a pro-Julian Assange event. I will not be a party to this bull***t, (Facebook, Inc. No f****n' way! I only mention that because this is an insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. "It arrived this morning with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money.
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He told the U.K.’s Sky News back then, “I am representing the thoughts of ordinary people who believe in the law, freedom, and the freedom of the press and free speech.London, June 15 (IANS) Rock legend and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has revealed that he has snubbed a lucrative Facebook offer to use the band's iconic 1979 hit "Another brick in the wall, part 2" in an upcoming commercial for Instagram. Waters has been publicly protesting in support of Assange’s release since February 2020, when he joined hundreds of people who were marching through central London, demanding the WikiLeaks founder’s release. They want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so that it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out to the general public…You think, how did this little prick, who started off going, ‘She’s pretty, we’ll give her a 4 out of 5, she’s ugly, we’ll give her a 1,’ how the fuck did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.” Waters looked up from the letter, “It’s true, and yet they want to sojourn it. “We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless a work. “We want to thank you for considering this project,” he read. Appearing at a forum supporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the former Pink Floyd frontman revealed the Facebook CEO had requested. So I will not be a party to this bullshit, Zuckerberg.”Īt this point, he began reading directly from the letter allegedly written by Zuckerberg, or at least written on his behalf. Roger Waters really does not like Mark Zuckerberg. “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. “And I only mention that because it’s the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything,” he continued. He paused as the crowd laughed at his statement, then continued, “So it’s a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money, and the answer is ‘fuck you! No fucking way!’” It’s a request for the rights to use my song, ‘Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2),’ in the making of a film to promote Instagram.” “You have no idea what it is - nobody does - because it arrived on the internet to me this morning. “This is something that I actually put in my folder when I came out here today,” Waters began, while pulling out a piece of paper. Mexico’s La Jornada shared a video of Waters’ statement on Twitter over the weekend. The public response was made while Waters was speaking at a forum that was organized in support of the release of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange, who has been in jail in the UK since April 2019.
Any additional information surrounding the Instagram promotion video was kept a secret. 2” is one of Pink Floyd’s most famous songs from The Wall, their 1979 full-length rock opera.
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