Hey podcast listeners, next week we start our fall lineup of brand new podcast episodes.

Until then, here's a rerun of an episode that, surprisingly to us, was our most downloaded

episode from the past 18 months.

It's called Who Runs the Internet?

Hope you enjoy.

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

And again, another story we're following, a cyber bullying, this seems to be an all-too-common

occurrence.

Poorness is now available everywhere at the click of a button.

Photographies taking the place of good, healthy sex 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 videos.

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 friend and co-author Steve Levitt.

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

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