“I will not be a party to this bullshit, Zuckerberg,” Waters stated, then adding, “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 fuck did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world. So the general public could go, ‘What? What? No! No more!’” He then scoffed, "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. 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." Reading a portion of the letter to the audience, Waters recited, “We want to thank you for considering this project. The singer then stated that he felt the request was just another example of "an insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything.” Arrived this morning, with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money, and the answer is – ‘Fuck you! No fucking way!’” Musician Roger Waters has said he has informed Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in no uncertain terms that he is rejecting the social media moguls request to use one his songs in an ad. Waters did not hold back, telling the audience, “So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me. As Waters sat with the panel on the stage, he presented a folder that held a letter from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that requested the usage of the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall" in a film that would promote Instagram.
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