Musician and founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Roger Water has slammed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the latter asked his permission to use one of the band’s songs in an ad campaign for Instagram.
While speaking at a forum supporting jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Waters revealed that the social media mogul offered him a huge amount of money to use his iconic 1979 song, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).”
In a viral video, Waters reads from a piece of paper, “You have no idea what it is—nobody does—because it arrived on the internet to me this morning. 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. 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*** you! No f***ing way!”
"And I only mention that because it's the insidious movement of them 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****, Zuckerberg, “Roger Waters added.
The rocker called Zuckerberg an “idiot” and accused him of “preventing” Julian Assange’s story from "getting out to the general public.”
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Waters said, “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…"
He added, "You think, how did this little pr***, 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 f*** did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world."
In February last year, hundreds of protesters including Waters and designer Vivienne Westwood demanded the release of Assange as they marched through the streets of central London.
