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.”
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.
Big fan of the earlier stuff, do not like The Wall.
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.
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/
Me , too .
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.
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.
Evil millennial meets severely emotionally damaged 77 year old. Film at 10...
I vote George Soros for number1,Zuck 1.1.
Maybe he doesn’t want zuckerberg to Meddle in his business...
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.
Roger hates Americans and hates Jews. In the case of Zuckerberg, his blind rage accidently lands on a deserving target.
Bkmk
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.
Zomeone has a Zaucer full of Zecrets,
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.
Waters is making sense for a change
Mike Lindell has changed Zuck’s name to Zuckabuck . . . and I approve!
Further proof that you’ll never be the “right” kind of leftist in that culture.
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