> 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

> 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 II, in the making of a film to promote Instagram. So it's a missive from Mark Zuckerberg to me. Right. Arrived this morning. With a offer of a huge, huge amount of money. And the answer is: Fuck you. No fucking way. I only mention that because this an insidious move 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 the control of the publishing of my songs I do anyway, so. I will not be a party to this bullshit, Mark Zuckerberg. > "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 truly..." -- and yet they want to suburn, 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 to the general public, so the general public could go "WHAT? What, no?" No. No more. > ... > You think, "how did this little prick who started off by saying 'She's pretty, we 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.