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This is why online moderation is important. I am all for freedom of speech, but it only takes one unhinged person to take venting as social license to do something extreme.
Venting online anger without some sort of moderation can quickly turn to: 'wait, I thought you guys were serious about mailing them bombs...'
Chose your words carefully when venting. Don't get caught up in echo chambers. Echo chambers are a really sneaky trap, since it's very easy to feel like you've found 'your people'. They are essentially online tribalism, and do not offer any insights outside of the main group's paradigm. Constant regurgitation of the same mantras (but with different contextual flair) just serves to entrench people in a given view, not expand the breadth of their thinking, and makes it seem like the only tool in the box is a hammer, when perhaps a a small screw driver would do the job.
I really think it should be assumed that a good number of those posting about making bombs (or any number of other acts of violence) are, indeed, trying to incite people to do such things. It's not all innocent venting being mistaken for calls to action.