Mark Grabowski was quoted in a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution involving free speech and social media threats. The story details how one dreadful social media post can have a lifetime of consequences. In the case of the store's subject, his anonymous Tumblr post threatening a school attack led to his college expulsion, six months in jail, a five-year social media ban and homelessness.

Grabowski addressed how the U.S. legal system assesses whether statements are protected by the First Amendment or not. "It comes down to a few different things: was it a true threat, or was it something he said in jest?” said the Adelphi University internet law and digital ethics professor. “If the statement can be reasonably interpreted by people as a joke, then it might not be considered a true threat. But if a court interprets that a message was intentionally threatening, it is treated as a threat regardless of whether the messenger has the means to carry the act out.” 

Mark Grabowski published a new piece in the Nebraska Law Review that examines internet governance: "Should the U.S. Reclaim Control of the Internet? Evaluating ICANN’s Administrative Oversight Since the 2016 Handover." 

The article examines the U.S. government's decision in 2016 to handover controls of the Internet's backbone to a private company known as ICANN. Grabowski, an Internet Law professor, concludes that Amerca's abdication has been a disaster and, consequently, the future of the Internet as we know it is now imperiled. 

Here's the abstract of Grabowski's piece: "As the two-year anniversary of its abdication approaches, U.S. government officials recently caused a stir by publicly questioning whether they should reassert their control over the Internet’s administrative functions. ICANN, the non-governmental organization that now independently oversees the Internet’s backbone, has arguably been plagued by mission creep, budget problems, and challenges to its authority. Although reversing the handover may be difficult, this paper argues that U.S. officials are justified in putting pressure on ICANN."