British rock star Roger Waters said he rejected a large sum of money from Facebook seeking permission to use one of his hit songs in an Instagram advertisement because of the company’s censorship practices.
“It arrived this morning, with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money,” the Pink Floyd co-founder told a crowd about an offer seeking permission to use the song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2″ in an Instagram ad. “And the answer is, ‘F*** You. No f****** way.’”
“¡Vete a la chingada!”: @rogerwaters a Mark Zuckerberg. 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. Lo narró en un acto por la libertad de Julian Assange (@Wikileaks)#VideosLaJornada pic.twitter.com/gEVqaor8Eo
— La Jornada (@lajornadaonline) June 12, 2021
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Waters, who was speaking to an audience of Julian Assange supporters, said the letter read in part, “We feel that the core sentiment of this song is still so prevalent and so necessary today, which speaks to how timeless the work is.”
Waters took issue with the statement and said he didn’t want to take part in anything that makes the company more powerful.
“And yet, they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram more powerful than it already is,” Waters said. “So that it can continue to censor all of us in this room and prevent this story about Julian Assange getting out into the general public so the general public can go, ‘What? No. No More.’”
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Waters also directly criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, calling him a “little prick” and one of the most “powerful idiots in the world.”
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Instagram’s marketing team did reach out to inquire about using the Pink Floyd song in an advertisement but that Zuckerberg was not involved in any way.
