https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/21/ukgov_to_treat_online_abuse_as_seriously_as_offline_hate/

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has pledged to tackle online abuse with the same seriousness as it does hate crimes committed in the flesh.

Following public concern about the increasing amount of racist, anti-religious, homophobic and transphobic attacks on social media, the CPS has today (August 21) published a new set of policy documents on hate crime.