Musician Roger Waters is outraged when Mark Zuckerberg has requested to Use 'Pink Floyd' song for his social media forum supporting the confidential WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The 77-year old singer claims that Facebook founder has offered him a large sum of money to use "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2", a 1979 track from band Pink Floyd
Waters Believes Mark Zuckerberg and Team Are in a Quest to 'Take Over Absolutely Everything'
In an exclusive interview with Independent, Waters said, "It's a request for the rights to use my song, 'Another Brick in the Wall, Pt 2' in the making of a film to promote Instagram."
He then went on by saying, "So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me arrived this morning, with an offer of a huge, huge amount of money, and the answer is - f*** you! No f***ing way!"
"And I only mention that because it's the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. So those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit - in terms of control of the publishing of my songs I do anyway. So I will not be a party to this bull****, Zuckerberg," Waters Added.
Waters Thinks Zuckerberg Prevents Information About Assange to Reach the General Public
Waters has also made several other remarks for the Facebook founder calling him an "idiot." he also says that Mark's attempt is to prevent the story of Assange to proliferate in the general public.
Waters has even shared an excerpt of Zuckerberg's supposed email to him saying "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 a work (it is)."
As a response, Waters said, "It's true, and yet they want to sojourn it."
"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..." he added.
In an additional remark, he said, "You think, how did this little pr***, who started off going, 'She's pretty, we'll give her a 4 out of 5, she's ugly, we'll give her a one.' How the f*** did he get any power in anything? And yet here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world."
Waters is known to be a firm protester against the extradition of Assange back to the USA. He has participated to the march in Central London back in 2020. Protestors demonstrated signs such as "don't extradite Assange" and "no extraordinary rendition".
Julian Assange, Australian computer programmer and founder of WikiLeaks, known to promote scientific journalism by releasing internal or classified documents for government and corporate entities. Due to the release of confidential files, many US politicians have branded Assange as a terrorist. He has also faced multiple charges including the US Espionage Act of 1917 on 17 counts for dissipating classified material given to him by Chelsea Manning from the US army back in 2010.
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Written by Nikki Schmidt
