Voices for Voices®

Facing Digital Danger: When Death Threats Invade Your Personal Space | Ep 283

• Founder of Voices for Voices®, Justin Alan Hayes • Season 4 • Episode 283

Share episode

Facing Digital Danger: When Death Threats Invade Your Personal Space | Ep 283

MERCHANDISE SHOP: voices-for-voices.org/3QnokLU
SUPPORT VOICES FOR VOICES®:
https://www.voicesforvoices.org/shop/p/supporter

Justin and guest David Solomon expose the disturbing reality of digital death threats when David woke up to find someone had posted "I'll find your ass and take you to the Lord with me" on his personal Facebook wall. They examine why these threats aren't being caught by platform algorithms that should protect users.

• Death threats via social media represent a growing category of e-crimes that warrant serious attention
• David received his threat after speaking out about protecting children in the writing industry
• The threat was posted publicly on his wall rather than sent privately, maximizing public humiliation
• Despite advanced technology in 2025, social platforms still lack effective prevention measures for threats
• Similar patterns of harassment were identified across multiple victims, suggesting coordinated behavior
• Big tech companies must improve their algorithms to filter death threats before they're published
• Law enforcement agencies need to take online threats as seriously as physical ones
• Recent legislation like the Take It Down Law demonstrates that effective legal remedies are possible
• Christians are called to "love thy neighbor" not threaten harm over disagreements
• Speaking out about these experiences helps protect others from becoming victims

If you're experiencing online harassment or threats, report it to both the platform and law enforcement. Your voice matters.

Chapter Markers

0:00 Show Introduction & Public Safety Focus

4:15 Death Threats: A Modern E-Crime Issue

5:30 Introducing David's Traumatic Experience

7:42 The Facebook Death Threat Revealed

11:05 Cyberbullying and Christian Values Contrast

17:17 Call for Accountability from Big Tech

23:01 Patterns of Online Harassment

31:20 Closing Thoughts and Public Safety Plea

36:10 Show Wrap-Up and Final Message

#DigitalSafety #CyberThreats #OnlineHarassment #PersonalSecurity #MentalHealthAwareness #InternetSafetyTips #PrivacyProtection #DigitalWellbeing #ThreatManagement #SafeOnlineCommunity #SocialMediaRisks #ProtectYourSpace #DigitalCourage #FacingFearsOnline #EmpowermentThroughKnowledge #VoicesforVoices #VoicesforVoicesPodcast #JustinAlanHayes #JustinHayes #help3billion #TikTok #Instagram

Support the show

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

All right. Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. I'm your host. Founder of Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes. Thank you so much for joining us on this episode and our over 280 other episodes. We encourage you to check all those out at your convenience. We're only able to do this because of you, your love and support of having an interest in what we're doing, and so that's what keeps us going, that's what, when we wake up in the morning, makes us want to do what we do as advocates, as helping other people, other humans, identifying and talking about public safety concerns, and this episode is just like that. So if you're able to give us a thumbs up, subscribe, like, share, follow all that great stuff you can do that for free. That would help us greatly. If you're able to.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

We are a 501c3 charity. We do accept donations. On Venmo Voices and then the number four and then Voices, or you can head on over to our website, voices, and then the letter spelled out for Voicesorg, so that's Voices for Voicesorg, and then you're able to click right there on the screen to support the organization and the show, and we can't do this without you. There's no donation that's too small or too large. So thank you to everybody who has ever been a part of Voices for Voices. Thank you. We greatly appreciate all your efforts, both here in the United States and at all points across the world. Hitting almost 80 countries, 800 cities really remarkable.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

But this episode heads into that arena of public safety. So different events happen in the public arena, and 10, 15 years ago we didn't have as many of what we would call these e-crimes electronic crimes. Most of them in the past have been face-to-face types of crimes, face-to-face types of crimes. Some of these electronic crimes were occurring, but they were just getting off the ground and we are sad to inform that. We have had someone who has been through an awful lot. You've heard his story, his experiences, and so we're talking about this episode here and this topic for a public safety concern, because if this can happen to our guests, it can happen to our guests, it can happen to any one of us, and so we wanna talk about this out in the open, we wanna share the topic, we wanna share the information, because we don't want anybody else to ever have to go through a situation that we're going to be talking about, and it is a, it's a very you know, you're gonna, it's gonna sound extreme, right, so we're gonna, we're gonna talk about, uh, death threats, and so it can't really sugarcoat it at all.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

Um and so death threats, you words, actions, whether in person or now, with these e-crimes, electronically, through social media and other electronic means that a person or persons threatens the life of another person, another human being. So we're going to be talking about that. So, if this is a topic that is hard to hear and talk about hear us talk about. Hard to hear and talk about, hear us talk about we ask you to check out our other 280 plus episodes, because this is raw, this is life, this is, you know, real event that happened. This isn't something that you know, happened way far away and it doesn't impact us. It could very well impact any one of us on any given day. So, first off, we want to introduce David Solomon to the show again. David, thank you for joining us, especially on this kind of very traumatic occasion.

David Solomon:

It's always, you know, like I always say, it's always a pleasure being here and just helping others through difficult times and just trying to be that light for people. It's an overwhelming and traumatic moment when you wake up and someone posts on your wall I'm going to kill you and that's what I woke up to.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And so for those viewers or listeners.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

We have pulled that up onto the screen. What Dave is talking about is an individual that goes by the name of Duke Ryan Miller Posted this on David's Facebook wall David Solomon yeah, I'll advise you not to post on this site, my dear friend David Solomon, which that's interesting and of itself, because you are david solomon, so it's, it's your board, uh. And then it says the artist from laguna beach I'm at my wit's end, I'm about to go down with a cancer situation. I'll find your ass and take you to the Lord with me. D it's an expletive, and so that's the message that David's going to be referring to. And then this is again a public profile of the individual who made this post. This is Duke Ryan Miller, and this is Avatar, and so just want to give you some context, as David is speaking about this. Go ahead, david yeah.

David Solomon:

So like it's never. You're always gonna get pushback when you're doing something right, but to have this kind of pushback is sometimes a little shocking, um, at the same time, um, it's like, why would someone ever do that? Who does that? As a human being, I don't know them. I'm not in Laguna Beach. I was there with my mom long ago.

David Solomon:

I spoke out to protect children. I spoke out to protect children. I spoke out to protect people parents, especially on a very delicate issue, and to get threatened for doing so is uncalled for and inhuman. Like we're entitled to have free speech, we're entitled to have our opinions. But why this? Like you could say, I dislike David Solomon. You post it on my wall. You let the whole world see I haven't talked about that particular issue for a year, I haven't reached out, I haven't done anything and you post on my wall and that's the inhuman part that I'm frustrated at. You know, as a Christian, we're called to love thy neighbor. You know I'm not here crucifying other people. I don't like them, but I'm not going to post on their wall.

David Solomon:

Funny story Brian Davis took me right, but I'm not posting on his wall and saying dude, you did this to me and you did that to me. So it's quite another ordeal when someone publicly posts on your wall and I didn't even find out about it until a dear actor friend of mine found out about it and said dude, he just posted on your wall. So cyberbullying is a real thing, and when you're dealing with that it's not easy. So like when you have children and they're bullied online, right, and so you know me as a parent if someone bullies my kid, I'm going to call them out, and so this is called cyberbullying. But it also takes it a step further and it's a death threat. So freedom of speech is one thing. This is not freedom of speech. We went way past the line, like we went woo way past. So to the person that did this, that's got this, you were right to do this to other people, right?

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

Can you repeat that you broke up when you were saying that?

David Solomon:

So if you're doing this to me, you're doing it to other people. Okay, it's not okay. It's called being human. We are different, we don't agree with everything, and that's okay. But to take it to a whole new level and do this is not okay. So cyberbullying is a real thing, cyberterrorism is a real thing and just threatening someone on their social media is a real thing. But you shouldn't be doing that. You should be being human. You should be being human and at the very least, you call yourself Christian. This is not Christian.

David Solomon:

Now they're posting on my wall because I made a statement. I stand by that statement. I said if there is any slander, it will be reported to the police. That is what I said. You don't have to agree with it. You don't have to say oh, you know whatever, but you don't threaten. So that's why I'm a little speechless and a little irritated Now.

David Solomon:

I've been in ministry a long time. I've been in the writing world a long time. I've seen a lot, but to wake up to this is a little extreme Now. It would have been one thing if you posted on my writing. It would have been one thing if you posted on my mythical creatures. You chose to post on my personal page. Right, you threaded me on my personal page and by doing that you cross a line.

David Solomon:

So my job and I hold it heavy is to protect my family, to protect children in the writing industry, and I spoke on that. My family to protect children in the writing industry, and I spoke on that and I abide by that. Okay, and so to the single mothers out there, to the single fathers out there, to the families out there that rely on a safe space for their kids to interact with authors that's what I spoke about, and I got crucified for it because I said this is wrong. No, but I didn't go on Mr Scott Miner's Facebook. I didn't do that. So that's why, unlike everything else, I'm just livid with anger because of this. This should never be so to the person that did this if you have a problem with me, I'm going to say it again that I said a year ago Stop posting on my wall, stop going to everybody else and come to me. Stop insulting my wife, my son, my family. If problem, come to me, that's it.

David Solomon:

And you call yourself Christian and you call yourself a man of God. This is not what a Christian does. Bible says a Christian loves thy neighbor, and if there's an enemy that threatens you, you turn the other cheek. You think I'm going to go back and threaten you? No, no, I'm not. I'm going to pray for you. I'm going to pray that God helps you see clarity, but I'm not going to threaten you. I don't want to fight, and so that's that you need to know about me.

David Solomon:

So the fact that I'm making this just to say, dude, stop. There's better things to do. I can make videos all day long on uplifting writers, on uplifting people that are, you know, contemplating terrible things and need that light and need that inspiration. And here I am wasting my breath on you because you chose to have anger on an issue that's wrong in the first place. Instead of acting human, you just blasted it on my social media. So that's what I have to say on it be human and, above all, be Christian. Like, if you're Christian, own it, walk it doesn't mean you have to be perfect, but don't do this, go ahead yeah, walk, it Doesn't mean you have to be perfect, but don't do this, go ahead.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

Yeah, thank you for I mean sharing, well, a lot of transparency and some of the feelings and, like you said, it's. You know we've talked about it quite a bit here on the show and on videos about the United States of America Constitution, first Amendment free speech directed at somebody specifically, that's when, like you mentioned, it really crosses that line. That that's when you know the free speech. It doesn't hold up as it would for you know, talking about and having opinions and like the way we've done. So, thank you for sharing and talking about it. I mean it's hard. I mean it's hard for me to. When you reached out, I mean I was like floored that that occurred. Unfortunately, I can't come to surprised. I should be surprised. We ought to be surprised when something like this happens, because it never should happen. It never should happen, and to put it out there on a personal, on your personal Facebook page wall for people to see that there's a lot of people that have seen it. And you know I again, as you can check out, I did a tiktok video on this very topic. Uh, so by the time this episode comes out that the tiktok will have been out for a few hours. And what I want to again reiterate, that it's a public safety concern. If it can happen to David or anybody, it could happen to you, it could happen to somebody. You know we don't want it to happen to anybody else, but that's why we're talking about it, that's why a public safety concern if somebody is being threatened and this is pretty close to a direct threat, as it can be and then we also want to alert law enforcement and people in authority. Facebook, meta, all the tech platforms, the social media platforms there's no room for this at all. So the mere fact that you don't have an algorithm and you don't have anything in place that pulls this down ahead of time, before it gets posted, uh, that's quite alarming. And why is it alarming? Because, as we, as we've talked about in very big detail the take it down act, that now is the take it down law, the big tech. Whether you like it or not, you have 48 hours to take down photos that have been altered. You know, called deep fakes. You know, taking a photo, uh, perfectly innocent picture, and turn it into a nude photo. You know, we've talked to ellison berry, she's a big, uh, big driver, uh, and her mom is anna, and uh, senator Senator Ted Cruz, from the great state of Texas, all the way up the chain to the bipartisan agreement on the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, that that is a huge deal. It passed in record time from the time it got started the legislation process in Texas, and so it became, and it is now, federal law. So if you don't know that it's federal law and it's a felony to do that, well, it is, and it was signed into law just a few short weeks ago. We have quite a few episodes on that.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

The reason I'm bringing this up in the same breath is those deep fakes were happening on social media and that's how they were being shared. This death threat, our interpretation of it being a death threat, our good faith interpretation, opinion that this is a death threat that was put on Mr Solomon's personal Facebook wall. It has no place anywhere, nowhere in society, nowhere. And so big tech, so meta, instagram, all X, snapchat. I know I'm missing a bunch, I'm not as hip as I used to be and so we're asking for big tech and law enforcement to take some ownership on these types of things.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

They shouldn't be getting to the point where, again, mr Solomon wakes up in the morning and he's alerted that this happened. Just like Ellison Berry in Dallas, texas, showed up at school one morning and had everybody looking at her a little bit funny and whispering things, only for her to find out that somebody took an image of hers and turned it into one of these deepfake nudes. That's ridiculous. It should not happen. We're in the year 2025, not 1965. So we're reaching out again and I have to say it every time because apparently it hasn't gotten through. I don't know how many more are these incidents, how many more of these postings have to happen before people really wake up and do something about it? And whether your pockets are being lined with money or whatever and again we're, we're giving our opinion. We're not saying one way or another, but there's got to be a reason why this stuff isn't being handled the way it should be in the year 2025 with the type of technology that we have out there.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

So law enforcement, fbi, local law enforcement, city, state, federal, township, county, territory what have you? When you're made aware of these things, please, please, do something about it. Help people, right? Isn't that why you get in that profession to begin with? Is to help people. You want to make society a safer place for you, for me, for your family, for my family and other families. And when there's no action, that happens.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

Then people start to question like well, nobody cares about this, so I guess I'm just going to have to continue living, you know, in a, you know, especially with a death threat and some level of fear. None of us should have to go through any of this. I should have to go through any of this. So, law enforcement, please step up. Help a fellow United States citizen, and not just Mr Solomon, because I can almost guarantee that this is not the first time somebody has been given a what seems, in our good faith, that it's a death threat, and I don't know that it's going to be the last one, and I know we can't do something about every single one ahead of time, but we can at least try. We can put that into our algorithms. That's what you do. You're big tech. That's how your platforms are run. They're run through algorithms. So somebody somewhere had to write that algorithm. So why doesn't that somebody somewhere go in and tweak that algorithm?

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And so these types of activities are unacceptable, that they're taken down, that it doesn't take somebody waking up and being told that somebody has put what looks like an alleged death threat on their own personal Facebook wall but now to take it down in law. It's not just for big tech to take those photos and those things down, it's being able to prosecute the individuals who do that. So the individuals who do put those photos, those deep fakes up, they're able to be charged. It's a federal felony. For that to happen would give my opinion that what looks again in our good faith effort for in this case Mr Solomon looks to be like a death threat, and so not only should that content be taken down, but that content should be traced back to the individual or individuals who did that and they should be able to be prosecuted. And you know what big tech and law enforcement you should be doing, that it shouldn't be up to the person to find out that these things are happening to them. They're already going through enough trauma as it is, and we've all been through trauma, and it's not fun to different, various degrees.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And so I've been worked up, I've been fired up about these topics, you know the last few days here because it appears that nothing's being done about this and so these actions where people feel that they're able to put a what looks to me and us like it looks like a death threat, uh, or to say, hey, such and such and such action uh happened to you and such and such is taking advantage of you, only for that to be all falsehood. And I have to come out, like mr solon says he has, he's got plenty other things to do. We all have plenty of other things to do. The last thing we want to do is have to come here and put an episode together and then do all the admin work to get it up and running and all that. That's the last thing we want to do. We have a lot of great positive things that we could be spending our time on which we should be but we're not going to stand idle when these things happen. We're going to respond as much as in real time as possible, and again I revert anybody back. You have questions about this type of activity. Go look at episode 266 on our Voices for Voices TV show and podcast If you don't know. It's a great show, great organization. You really should follow, subscribe all that fun stuff, uh, and free stuff to do.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And in episode 266, there's an individual who has, uh, who's been named as a person who has been taken advantage by somebody else, and and this person our main guest in episode 266, comes out and flat out denies that that never was the case, never happened, no, how, nowhere. And some very similar, which we call pattern. Right, you heard me talk about XOXOX. What comes after that X? Well, it looks like the pattern, xoxox, I think it's an O, so that's called a pattern. And so in episode 266, the same, some of the same comments, comments and allegations made towards this individual had been made. What I found out through good faith, that were being talked about me. And so you saw, and it's still out there and it will be a TikTok video.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And I've been told oh, justin, you don't show emotion. And well, guess what? I show pretty pretty good emotion there in that TikTok, and I'm fired up about that. I'm fired up about this that this here, that Mr Solomon has to wake up and anybody anywhere has to wake up, to what looks to us like a death threat. Nobody should have to do that. So we all can do better. So, law enforcement, you can do better. Do you want your child? Do you want your in-laws? Do you want your spouse to have to wake up to this? I don't think so. So why is it okay to just turn the other way? I mean, it's an easy question. You should be able to answer that. Why is it okay to do that? Because that's what's exactly happened to Mr Solomon and it's happened to me.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

I've been harassed by individuals, and so have the guests in episode 266. And there we look at a pattern. Chances are that that might have happened or happening to others as well, and so that's why we're putting this together, because it's a public safety concern. It's things, they're real life, and so sometimes we don't want to talk about real life unless it's the Kardashians, or you know the housewives of Beverly Hills, or you know some reality show, you know Survivor. We'll talk about those, but no, we won't talk about. You know real things that real individuals like Mr Solomon and myself and others have gone through. So you know what? Again, we're an organization. We're going to share and talk about hard topics. We're going to talk about mental health. We're going to talk about trauma. We're going to talk about all kinds of public safety concerns. A lot of those are included in that, and some are going to be repetitive, and that just means that they're happening to more than one person.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And that's where, again, I'm calling for President Trump, your administration. You're doing a great job, at least so far, you know, compared to what looks like. You know, we lost. The last administration lost 300,000 children across the border, or somehow in some way, and the last figures I saw looks like President Trump's administration has been able to locate 10,000 of those, and so we shouldn't have 300,000 of anybody going missing, and so for those to be children, it just boggles my mind. And so you're going to see me fired up. You're going to hear me fired up, and it's because these things are happening in real life. And guess what? We get one chance at life, and so I'm going to spend the rest of my days helping and being an advocate and sharing stories, whether it's mine or others, and that's what Voices for Voices is and what it will continue to be.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

If you don't like that, find another show, find another podcast. I've talked about that donut example. If you're looking for a glazed donut, you show up to that first donut shop. They don't have them. You can sit and pout and get upset, or you can go to another donut shop and see if they have that. So it's the same thing. If you tune into our show and you don't like it, that's okay. We're all able to express and have our things. We like and we don't like, so turn the channel. So we're staying pure to who we are and David. So thank you so much for joining us and being so transparent with such a hard topic. Oh, absolutely All right. So we want to thank you, our viewers, our listeners. I just hope, yeah, go ahead.

David Solomon:

I just hope it doesn't happen to other people.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

Exactly.

David Solomon:

It's happening to other people.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

Yeah, and that's why we're doing it, because it's just very, very, very unfortunate. So if you're watching, you're listening if you're in a place of authority.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

If you can be a whistleblower, if you or your family or somebody knows Ben a victim to something, report it, talk out, share your story on social media, because that seems to be one of the only ways that we're able to to get, get our voice to be, uh, have a chance to be heard, because there's a lot of avenues that are just or plain simply there's not being listened to, or they're just going oh, that's not something we're going to deal with, or we're not going to look into that, or there's not being listened to, or they're just going oh, that's not something we're going to deal with, or we're not going to look into that, or there's other things, and and that's okay, and that's okay.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

But we also, as citizens, we're able to exercise our first amendment right, and we're not threatening anybody. We're just sharing straight up facts and we're showing the facts. So if you don't like it and you're one of the people doing it, then why don't you just stop doing it? That's your call. You're the one that wrote on, you know, typed up on on david's wall, not me, not david, uh and and and. So if that's, if that's something, and you get, you know, we talk about. You know being upset about spilled milk. You know if that, that's something that you get, you know we talk about. You know being upset about spilled milk. You know if that's something that worries you, bothers you about people stepping out and talking about it, just stop doing it. That's the quick advice I would give you.

Voices for VoicesⓇ, Justin Alan Hayes:

And so we're at the end of our time for this show. Thank you for watching, thank you for listening. We hope that you're a voice for somebody in need, or yourself, and if you'd like to be a guest on our show, please reach out. We'd love to have you. Thanks again to Mr Solomon for his expertise and just being so transparent. So until next time, I'm Justin Alan Hayes, with Voices for Voices, and we'll catch you next time. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

People on this episode

Head Shot

Justin Alan Hayes

Host