Joe Rogan is known for his support of respecting one’s privacy. It is a topic that Rogan has covered extensively on his podcasts and is truly a value he deeply believes in. However, in a recent episode of his Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the UFC commentator revealed the two instances where he felt that his privacy was violated by the law.

On Joe Rogan Experience #2214, Rogan sat down with journalist, executive, and co-founder of VICE Media, Shane Smith. The two talked about various topics about the world and the government, and that’s when they came across the topic of privacy. Smith revealed that he asks his children to be careful with their phones since they are a ‘human archive’ that contains every bit of their information and can be used as evidence against them. And this was truly something that hit home for Joe Rogan.

The UFC commentator chimed in and revealed that his text messages were disclosed twice during two legal cases of people he knows, Elon Musk and Alex Jones. “There are two different people that were involved in trials where my text messages to them became public and got printed in stories. One was Alex Jones; the other was Elon Musk. It’s very strange that they just have access to your text messages. Yeah, like, for what reason? I’m talking to some guy that I know, like, What do you—what do you—like the fact?” Joe Rogan claimed that he felt it was unethical to use his personal text messages as evidence as it was a personal conversation between two individuals.

And while he did not disclose information about the Elon Musk case and it is still hidden from the public eye, Rogan further talked about how the lawyers tried to pin him along with Alex Jones. He said that they were trying to find text evidence that would link him to Alex Jones’s claims about the Sandy Hook tragedy.

Rogan said, “And with the Alex Jones thing, they wanted every text message he and I had ever exchanged, so we got it down to whether or not he talked to me about Sandy Hook.” Well, it surely looks like Rogan has been affected by the misuse of disclosure of his personal texts, especially when they link him to a controversial personality like Alex Jones and his massive lawsuit.

The Alex Jones case that almost caught Rogan in the crossfire

Sandy Hook is the name of an elementary school located in Connecticut, United States. Unfortunately, it is also synonymous with a heinous crime that occurred there back in 2012, as a school sh**ting took place in which six teachers and 20 children lost their lives. The tragedy shocked the nation and sparked an intense debate about the free possession and sale of firearms. But public opinion took a strange turn when a theory was propagated that discredited the victims and maintained that the event was falsified by the government to create an emotional justification that allowed access to these devices to be restricted.

The biggest defender of this version? Alex Jones, a media figure who is known for his conspiracy theories. Jones is a radio host and public personality, best known for his radio show and website, Infowars. However, the media empire took its biggest fall as it got hit with a series of court litigations. The victims’ families confronted Jones in trials in Texas and Connecticut, culminating in the imposition of the largest defamation award ever recorded in the United States, with a figure that amounts to almost $1.5 billion.

The figure could’ve been higher if Rogan, who invited Alex Jones as a guest on his podcast, had text messages with Jones talking about the tragedy and the conspiracy theory surrounding it. However, Rogan had no such texts, so he was free from the lawsuit. And maybe that’s why he would be trying his best to not have any text conversations with controversial people anymore.

What do you think? Should text messages be used as evidence? Let us know in the comments.