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.