Commentary: Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has become a central figure in the debate over global digital regulation after her summons to the US Congress. The controversy exposes growing tensions among democracies as they pursue conflicting aims: Australia’s user-protection model, Europe’s democracy-defense agenda, and the US’s national-security-driven restrictions such as the TikTok ban. Together, they reveal an emerging patchwork of diverging online governance norms.