Joe Rogan sounds the alarm on dangerous social media trend

Joe Rogan is one of the most popular podcasters in the world, so much so that Spotify recently paid him $250 million to renew his contract. His show, The Joe Rogan Experience, actually has a whopping 19.4 million subscribers and has been viewed more than three billion times, according to On The Fly.

One reason why Rogan is so popular is that he has a diverse array of guests, from Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders to Mike Tyson, Edward Snowden, and Lance Armstrong. His guests come from all walks of life, and his hours-long podcast gives Rogan and his visitors the chance to touch upon a wide mix of important issues.

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Rogan also pulls no punches, sharing his opinions even when they are controversial, disagreeing with guests when they're not on the same page, and tackling some of the most important issues of the day.

Recently, for example, Rogan had some very strong words to share about a very alarming social media trend.

In fact, Rogan is so disturbed by this troubling trend that he believes if things continue going the way they are on popular social media networks, it could be the end of the world as we know it.

Everyone should heed Rogan's warning.

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On Joe Rogan's 167th show with Cory Sandhagen, a professional mixed martial artist, Rogan told Sandhagen about one of his greatest fears related to social media. His fear was related to a troubling trend that he said Elon Musk gave him some inside info about.

“I'm friends with Elon. I knew what was going on in Twitter behind the scenes. I knew how the government was stepping in and silencing posts. I'm like, this is f*king dangerous, man,” Rogan said.

Rogan was specifically speaking of the censorship that he believes was going on with with previous administration, and he gave a number of examples that he found particularly troubling.

“If they get a real grip on social media and you no longer can protest about things and express yourself about things, including a lot of things that happen to be true, like during the COVID crisis, people are getting their accounts banned for posting factual information. Yeah. That was scary to me because that's very, very un-American,” Rogan said.

(The idea that the President Joe Biden administration was interfering with social media posts remains an unproven conspiracy theory).

Since Rogan endorsed President Donald Trump in the last action, it's easy to assume that his concern his a partisan one.

However, surprisingly, his fears about the troubling social media trend are not specific to lawmakers on one side or the other, and he's not simply afraid of those on the left having control over social media. His fears are much broader than that.

“You know, but the problem is then, what if the f*ing right gets in place and they use the same rules that you used on them? Now we don't have a country anymore. Now we're f*ed. Now we're just like every other dictatorship.”

Rogan also made very clear that action needs to be taken to make sure that his fears don't become a reality. “We need to stop these fascists or whatever we want to call them.”

While he doesn't provide specifics on exactly how he believes that we should do that, it's very clear that Rogan isn't a fan of censorship from either side. And, knowing the renowned podcast host, he's likely to speak out on his show whenever he sees it happening.

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Given the scope of his audience, Rogan sending up the alert if he believes speech is being censored could, by itself, go a long way toward fighting the very problem he fears.