We've all heard the accusations again and again and again.

And again, another story we're following, cyber bullying.

This seems to be an all-too-common occurrence.

Yeah, just now, porn is now available everywhere at the click of a button.

Photographies taking the place of good healthiest education.

We're exposing people most at risk to a new and toxic drug called virtual entertainment

and the worst of it are these violent video games.

People are so concerned about violent video games.

Think about your kids acting out violently on real people through social media.

The message is clear.

Technology makes it easy for people to do bad things,

to engage in anti-social behaviors that they might not otherwise do.

But what if we have this question backward?

What if, maybe, somehow?

What if all that virtual mayhem translates into less actual mayhem?

I called up my Frekenomics friend and co-author Steve Levit.

He's an economist at the University of Chicago.

One of his favorite research topics is crime.

So in theory, there are at least three channels

through which you can imagine virtual violence,

spilling over or not, into real violence.

So the first, and this is the more popular view,

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