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I'm talking across the industrialized world. The availability of the internet and other 'pacification networks' may be a contributing factor but it's clearly not the driving force.


Well violence in Britain started to go down a decade later than in the USA, so your time frame counterexample doesn't work for that.


It could still be the main driving force, and it just so happened that an associated force or two started a little earlier.


But violence has been declining steadily for the past 400 years. Something other than the internet must be behind that.


No, it was all the internet! :)

But seriously ... I think that, although before it was not the internet, now the internet has accelerated it.




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