Crown Prosecution Service has published a new policy on how it will prosecute online hate crimes. Some critics complain the change could silence free speech. Last year, there were over 15,000 hate crime prosecutions in the U.K. Last year there were more victims of online hate crime than ever before. Prosecutors may make exceptions for children who do not fully comprehend that something published online could be a hate crime. The new policy covers the following strands of hate crime: racist and religious; disability; and homophobic, biphobic and transphobic”]