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ANGRY ROGER WATERS REJECTED ‘HUGE’ DEAL FROM FACEBOOK
UltimateClassicRock ^ | June 14, 2021 | Martin Kielty

Posted on 06/14/2021 4:05:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Roger Waters said he rejected a “huge” offer from Facebook for the use of the classic Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall Part II” and called the corporation’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, “one of the most powerful idiots in the world.”

Speaking during an event that’s part of a campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – the imprisoned subject of an international debate over freedom of expression – Waters said the offer had come directly from Zuckerberg, who wanted to use the song in a film to promote Facebook and Instagram.

“So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me,” Waters said in a new video clip. “Arrived this morning, with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money, and the answer is – **** you! No ****** way!’”

He added that he mentioned the letter as an example of “insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything.” You can watch the video below.

Waters read aloud some of Zuckerberg's letter: “We want to thank you for considering this project. We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and necessary today, which speaks to how timeless your work is, truly."

"And yet they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram even bigger and more powerful than it already is, so it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out," Waters said. "So the general public could go, ‘What? What? No! No more!’”

He suggested it was important for people with power to stand against alleged limitations of free expression by social media corporations. “I will not be a party to this ********, Zuckerberg,” Waters said, before becoming more personal in his attack: “You think, 'How did this little prick – who started off by saying, 'She is pretty, we'll give her a four out of five,' 'She's ugly, we'll give her a one' – how the **** did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: facebook; music; rogerwaters; socialmedia
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To: nickcarraway

I say, good for Rogers for turning Zuckerberg down. Zuckerberg needs to be turned down a lot.

Humility makes a human stronger. And Zuckerberg has little humility.


21 posted on 06/14/2021 4:27:02 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Big fan of the earlier stuff, do not like The Wall.


22 posted on 06/14/2021 4:39:54 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: humblegunner

To “smite” someone is to strike them. To be “anti-Smite”, one is a pacifist. Like me. I’m against violence. But behind on the computer, everything changes because my keyboard has Tourettes Syndrome. I can’t control it. It’s crazy.


23 posted on 06/14/2021 4:41:10 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Who is John Galt and is he vaccinated?)
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To: nickcarraway

I suspect that Roger Water’s long history of anti-Semitic hatred played a part in this bizarre rant. And I’m no fan of Facebook or of Mark Zuckerberg.

https://observer.com/2013/12/the-anti-semitic-stench-of-pink-floyd/


24 posted on 06/14/2021 4:41:41 PM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: nickcarraway

Me , too .


25 posted on 06/14/2021 4:48:23 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: xp38

Mark Zuckerberg is the second most repellent Jew on this or any other planet, behind Antony Weiner.

Saying so does not make me anti-semitic. It is simply the truth about them both.


26 posted on 06/14/2021 4:50:11 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: nickcarraway

Leftism is all about whining and railing against those with control in order to gain power and control, and the only things they hate more than each other is everyone else. So when I hear a leftist whine about someone else’s abuse of power, I know it’s because they want it instead, and they would abuse it just the same.


27 posted on 06/14/2021 4:52:06 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: nickcarraway

Evil millennial meets severely emotionally damaged 77 year old. Film at 10...


28 posted on 06/14/2021 4:55:58 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Ouderkirk

I vote George Soros for number1,Zuck 1.1.


29 posted on 06/14/2021 4:56:05 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: algore

Maybe he doesn’t want zuckerberg to Meddle in his business...


30 posted on 06/14/2021 4:56:41 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it with a 2X4...)
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To: nickcarraway

Not a fan of Roger Waters but at least he got this one right.

I’m a Pink Floyd fan but David Gilmour is far better.


31 posted on 06/14/2021 5:00:02 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: nickcarraway

Roger hates Americans and hates Jews. In the case of Zuckerberg, his blind rage accidently lands on a deserving target.


32 posted on 06/14/2021 5:00:31 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: nickcarraway

Bkmk


33 posted on 06/14/2021 5:01:55 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: DoodleBob

That’s a little sensitive. There wasn’t a single word about religion, Israel, Zionism, and none of the classic Jew slanders...I mean nothing.

He seems to intensely dislike Zuckerberg which makes him sane. He seems to dislike that twirp exploiting his songs to gain more power and money. And he called him out as nothing more that a girl rating app that got out of control.


34 posted on 06/14/2021 5:02:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Paleo Pete

Zomeone has a Zaucer full of Zecrets,


35 posted on 06/14/2021 5:03:48 PM PDT by algore
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To: nickcarraway
We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Facebook, leave them kids alone
Hey! Zucky! Leave them kids alone!

36 posted on 06/14/2021 5:18:46 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: nickcarraway

So if Waters is so against FB censorship then he should be demanding that Trump be reinstated on FB.

Funny I have not seen him take that position but if e did at least he would be somewhat consistent if there is such a thing with this guy.


37 posted on 06/14/2021 5:28:17 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: nickcarraway

Waters is making sense for a change


38 posted on 06/14/2021 5:52:16 PM PDT by vigilante2
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To: nickcarraway

Mike Lindell has changed Zuck’s name to Zuckabuck . . . and I approve!


39 posted on 06/14/2021 6:00:44 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: nickcarraway

Further proof that you’ll never be the “right” kind of leftist in that culture.


40 posted on 06/14/2021 6:04:18 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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