“This is something that I actually put in my folder when I came out here today. You have no idea what it is. Nobody does. Because it arrived on the internet to me this morning. It’s a request for the rights to use my song “Another Brick in the Wall 2” in the making of a film to promote instagram. So it’s a missive… it’s a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me, right? It arrived this morning. With an offer of a huge, huge amount of money. And the answer is: “F*ck you! No f*cking way!”
And I, I only mention that because this is an insidious, it’s the insidious movement of them to take over absolutely everything. You know? So those of us who do have any power, and I do have a little bit, in terms of the control of the publishing of my songs, I do anyway – So I will not be a party to this bullsh*t, Zuckerberg.“
Roger Waters reading from the missive: “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]” – it’s true.
And yet, they want to, they want to subjourn 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, so the general public can go, “What?! What?” No! No more. Nada mas.”
“Zuckerberg features in my new rock and roll show. I’ve got him sitting – no, I shouldn’t tell you. But, but he does. But you think, how does this little prick, who started off saying, “She’s pretty. We’ll give her a four out of five. She’s ugly, we’ll give her a one.”
How the f*ck did he get any power in anything? And yet, here he is, one of the most powerful idiots in the world.”