Waters then accused Facebook of censoring information about Assange. Lo narró en un acto por la libertad de Julian Assange ( #VideosLaJornada /gEVqaor8Eo El músico contó que le ofrecieron “una gran cantidad de dinero” por permitir el uso de Another brick in the wall II para promover Instagram. “¡Vete a la chingada!”: a Mark Zuckerberg. “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 in the making of a film to promote Instagram,” Waters said. “You have no idea what it is - nobody does - because it arrived on the internet to me this morning. In a video from the Mexican newspaper La Jornada dated June 10, Roger Waters is seen explaining Facebook’s song request. He described Facebook as “an insidious movement to take over everything.” The rocker called Zuckerberg an “idiot” and a ‘prick,’ and accused Facebook of suppressing information about Assange. “Fuck you,” Roger Waters said at a public event in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters had choice words for Mark Zuckerberg after the Facebook CEO asked to use one of the band’s songs in an ad campaign to promote Instagram. Waters does have an official Facebook page (though, as he says, he is banned by former bandmate David Gilmour from posting on Pink Floyd's Facebook page, with its 30 million followers).Īs word got out about Waters' remarks, he invited "trolls" to challenge him: "Call me a hypocrite for posting this on Zuckerberg's crappy censored platform." She's ugly we'll give her a 1' - how the f- did he get any power? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world." But how did this little p- who started off by saying, ' She's pretty we'll give her a 4 out of 5. I've got him sit - no, I shouldn't tell you. "Zuckerberg features in my new rock ’n’ roll show.
No more.’”Īt the People's Forum event last week, the man whose concerts have featured Trump's head attached to a pig's body elaborated on his disdain for the Facebook founder. "And yet 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 so the general public could go, 'What?! What? No. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless a work.
Waters read the rights request from a printed page at the People's Forum event, held June 10: "'We want to thank you for considering this project. He has been vociferously anti-Trump, anti-Brexit and has spoken at rallies for years in support of Assange. His support of a cultural boycott of Israel in response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular, has been controversial. 2," " Comfortably Numb" and " Wish You Were Here," Waters has been a vocal activist for a number of causes. So those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit - in terms of the control of the publishing of my songs I do, anyway - so I will not be a party to this b-s-, Zuckerberg."Īpart from cofounding one of rock's seminal concept-oriented bands and writing or co-writing such classics as " Money," "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. "I only mention that because it's the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. And the answer is 'F- you!,'" he added as the crowd cheered.
"So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, right? Arrived this morning with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money.
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