This lecture will examine the ideological origins, societal implications, as well as the relative global influence of three contrasting regulatory approaches towards the digital economy: the US’s techno-libertarianism, China’s digital authoritarianism, and the EU’s rights-driven regulatory paternalism. The lecture will focus in particular on how these three regulatory systems—as well as the digital companies empowered and constrained by them—enhance or undermine liberal democracy and individual rights to privacy and personal autonomy across the world.