Professor Mark Grabowski, who specializes in internet law and ethics, was recently cited in media stories about ongoing free speech controversies involving the internet.

A National Review story about Silicon Valley's anti-free speech policies quoted a March column by Grabowski, which explained how social media censorship may violate California's free speech laws. 

An Avvo article quoted Grabowski regarding the law and ethics of doxing people who participate in controversial protests, such as an August Charlottesville, Virginia protest that turned violent.

Grabowski is frequently interviewed by the press for internet law issues. In recent years, he's been cited in the Washington Post, USA Today, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, Christian Science Monitor, Shanghai Daily, Philadelphia Daily News, PC World, Long Island Press, Breitbart, Daily Caller and several other media outlets.

A new Pew Research Center poll found a growing number of people believe the media and academia are having a negative impact on America. Professor Mark Grabowski provided his analysis of the findings.

Grabowski told the Huffington Post that public trust in the press is declining because many media outlets focus on the wrong stories. “Russia isn’t going to pay the mortgage, lower healthcare premiums or pay off student loans,” he said referring the the media's fixation with President Trump and Russia.

In his Washington Examiner column, Grabowski opined on why a majority of Republicans believe colleges are having a negative effect on the country. "Too many colleges are not delivering what they promise: an education and a job," he wrote. "And the consequences have been a disaster for America."

Mark Grabowski, who teaches internet law and ethics at Adelphi University, weighed in on several recent issues related to his field, including revenge porn, net neutrality and internet anonymity.

Revenge Porn: In light of the Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna controversy, Grabowski warned in the New York Post that New York state's revenge porn law is woefully inadequate. “It’s endemic of the law lagging behind technology,” he said. Lawmakers “are out of touch with the technological issues people are facing.”

Net Neutrality: Grabowski told VOA News, come fall, your internet service could be throttled, Netflix could be blocked and politically controversial text messages could be censored if the FCC follows through with its all-but-formalized plan to roll back net neutrality regulations. Listen to interview here, beginning at 14:00 mark.

Internet Anonymity: In his column, ​Grabowski addressed CNN's threat to reveal an anonymous internet user who created a meme attacking them. The meme went viral after being retweeted by President Trump. Grabowski called CNN's response an "Orwellian overreaction." He explained in the Washington Examiner, "A news organization's mission is to report the news, not to thought-police the internet and threaten to make people famous if they make fun of it."

Professor and pundit Mark Grabowski, who is also a lawyer, weighed in on two political lawsuits that made headlines in the past week: state attorney generals' lawsuit against President Trump for allegedly violating the Constitution's Emoluments Clause and Sarah Palin's libel lawsuit against the New York Times.

In separate columns for the Washington Examiner, Grabowski predicted that neither lawsuit would likely succeed.

"The Emoluments Clause has been a dead letter since the 18th century," Grabowski explained. "The clause has never been litigated. No federal court has ever interpreted it directly. Legal scholars have debated whether it even applies to the president. It is incapable of judicial interpretation in the modern era without a detailed statutory and regulatory scheme.Moreover, it has been a presidential custom to violate the clause."

On the Palin lawsuit, he wrote, "As a result of the landmark 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan, public officials like Palin must prove actual malice in order to recover damages. It's an almost insurmountable burden of proof: showing the paper knew what it said was false or acted with reckless disregard of the truth."

Grabowski's columns were discussed by the Conservative Tribune, American Thinker, The Whim and law professor blogs.

Mark Grabowski's website on Cuba's recent developments has received multiple honors in recent months.

Grabowski and another Adelphi University professor launched CubaStories.com in 2016, after taking a group of students to Cuba to report on the dramatic changes underway since then-President Obama loosened U.S. sanctions against the Caribbean island-nation.

The website has received the following honors:

• 1st Place, Best News Story, Press Club of Long Island's 2017 Student Journalism Awards
• 3rd Place, Best Video Feature, Press Club of Long Island's 2017 Student Journalism Awards
• Finalist for 2017 MEDEA Awards for best educational multimedia project

​Internet law professor Mark Grabowski discussed legislation which will impact online privacy. The new law impacts the data Internet Service Providers may collect from customers. While the development is bad news, there's also a lot of misinformation being spread around the press and social media, he told various media outlets.

Grabowski was interviewed on the topic by Voice of America, Los Angeles talk show Phil Hulett and Friends, Long Island Press, tech blogs FairyDetox, TechKnowBits and other sites.

Here is Grabowski's full statement:

"There's lots of misinformation about this -- although it's still not good news. In short, nothing is changing. You didn't have online privacy to begin with, so you're not losing anything. The FCC had recently adopted new privacy rules that were set to go into place, but the new legislation stops that from happening. No, someone can't buy your specific internet history. That's a myth. A VPN won't entirely shield your privacy, either – that's another myth.

"What's going to happen is you're going to see more and more targeted ads when you surf online. So, for example, if your kid's teacher emails you that he's struggling in algebra, you might see ads about tutoring services. If you do a Google search for flights to Paris, expect to see ads from airlines and hotel websites.

"Deregulation of internet service providers has been a disaster for Americans. ISPs haven't delivered the promises they made when they begged Congress to end common carriage regulations in the '90s. Twenty years later, we've gone from being a pioneer in internet service to now lagging behind developing countries in terms of access, cost, speed, privacy protections and more. And this situation will probably continue to get worse. It looks like net neutrality is next on the chopping block."

Mark Grabowski will give a talk at Vanderbilt University Law School next week on the importance of viewpoint diversity in higher education. The event, at noon on March 29, is sponsored by the Federalist Society. It's free and open to the public.

Grabowski will be addressing recent free speech controversies at Middlebury, Berkeley, Vanderbilt and elsewhere, the importance of having an ideologically diverse faculty, how the corporatization of higher ed has contributed to this problem, and alarming new practices that some colleges are utilizing to chill speech -- such as creating social media "watch lists" for outspoken students -- among other things.

"One of the reasons we're seeing incidents like Middlebury is because many students live in a bubble and aren't getting exposed to other viewpoints," Grabowski said. "So, it's easy for them to reduce others to caricatures and flare at them instead of treating them respectfully like the human beings they are."

Grabowski is a lawyer and an associate professor at Adelphi University in New York, where he teaches communications law and ethics. He also writes a syndicated column for the Washington Examiner and is a member of Heterodox Academy, a non-partisan group of 500+ professors working to promote free speech and intellectual diversity on campus.

Who's right in the Apple-FBI dispute? Did Gawker violate Hulk Hogan's privacy when it posted a scandalous video of him on its website? Can Donald Trump close "parts of the Internet" if he becomes president?

Learn about these issues and more by signing up for Internet Law & Ethics, a 3-credit online summer course offered by Adelphi University.

The course, taught by Professor Mark Grabowski, features video lectures, interactive exercises and class discussions, all of which can be done through your computer. You never need to set foot in an actual classroom. And you can complete lessons at a time that's convenient for you.

The 6-week cyberspace law class is a survey course covering the law of and on the Internet. It will examine many of the legal, policy and ethical issues raised by the emergence and dominance of the Internet as a means for communication, commerce and social interaction. Topics will include jurisdiction, privacy, hacking and cybercrimes, intellectual property, network neutrality and government regulation of the Internet. No technical or legal background is needed. Grabowski is a lawyer with expertise on Internet law and digital ethics.

To register for the course, contact Adelphi University's Registrar Office at (516) 877-3300 or registrar@adelphi.edu. Both graduate and undergradate students, including non-Adelphi students, may enroll. Tuition costs approximately $2,500. Space is limited, so register ASAP. Class begins May 30 and ends July 8. 

Internet law professor Mark Grabowski in March published two law journal articles and a newspaper column on the U.S. Supreme Court and technology law.

In a Communications Law Review article published on March 15, Grabowski reflected on the late justice Antonin Scalia's legacy as an unlikely defender of technology. In a forthcoming piece being published in the Yale Journal on Regulation, he analyzes whether Neil Gorsuch, the federal judge nominated to succeed Scalia, will carry on his torch as a strong advocate for digital rights. The latter piece was discussed in Tech Policy Daily.

"Although Scalia's rulings on social issues were considered 'behind the times' by progressives, one area where he was 'shockingly forward-looking' was technology, law and tech experts agree," Grabowski said. "Let's hope Gorsuch is indeed 'Scalia 2.0' when it comes to protecting digital liberties. But a review of his decisions on tech issues suggests he may not be. The Senate definitely should explore this issue more closely when their confirmation hearings begin March 20."

Additionally, Grabowski addressed the Supreme Court and technology in his latest syndicated column. In light of a recent high court case, social media censorship could be declared unconstitutional, he argued. Grabowski's column, which was published in the Washington Examiner and several other newspapers from New York to Alaska, was discussed by SCOTUSblog, Constitution.com, Breitbart News, American Thinker and on Reddit. 

Grabowski has written extensively on the topic of the Supreme Court and technology. Past publications include:

• The ‘Twitter test’ for Supreme Court nominees, Sacramento Bee (March 3, 2016)
• Are Technical Difficulties at the Supreme Court Causing a "Disregard of Duty"?, Journal of Law, Technology & Internet (2011)
• Technical Difficulties at the Supreme Court, AOL News (June 1, 2010)

​Mark Grabowski was quoted in the Philadelphia Daily News on the latest controversy involving President Donald Trump -- his administration's purging of webpages from government websites.

Trump came under fire after webpages created by the previous Obama Administration, such as the LGBT page, disappeared when Trump took office. Grabowski told the Daily News: “It makes sense that Trump’s people would delete all the policy-related content created by the Obama administration.”

In a separate statement, the professor and pundit explained: "The widespread media reports that the Trump Administration 'took down' or 'deleted' info from the official White House website ... didn't tell the whole story. All of the previous administration's content disappeared: pages on LGBT rights, net neutrality, Iraq policy, etc. Given that Trump's Administration doesn't share identical policies on every issue,  it makes sense to first vet the Obama Administration's content before putting it on the White House website under the President Trump banner."