On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, YouTube experienced a major and rare global service outage. Using high‐frequency crime data from the United States, we document an important increase in rapes in the 24‐hour period following the outage. We investigate various potential underlying channels that may link the YouTube outage to the subsequent observed increase in rapes. The overall evidence only supports the hypothesis that the increase in rapes was driven by an increase in pornography viewing. (JEL D91, K42, L82)

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当您无法播放时…重大YouTube中断对强奸的影响

在2018年10月16日星期二，YouTube经历了一次重大且罕见的全球服务中断。使用来自美国的高频犯罪数据，我们记录了停机后24小时内强奸案的大量增加。我们调查了各种潜在的潜在渠道，这些渠道可能会将YouTube中断与随后观察到的强奸案增加联系起来。总体证据仅支持以下假设：强奸罪的增加是由观看色情内容的增加驱动的。（ JEL D91，K42，L82）