Instagram approached Waters about using, what else, “Another Brick In The Wall Part 2" for an advertisement, and he wasn’t having it.
“It arrived this morning, with an offer for a huge, huge amount of money,†Waters said of his offer from Instagram.Thankfully, Roger Waters (who again is at an event supporting Julian Assange, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by two women, so obviously, this is a very complicated situation) doesn’t like Facebook very much.
“‘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.’†In response, Waters said, “And yet, they want to use it to make Facebook and Instagram 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 into the general public so the general public can go, ‘What?