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A regulatory revision grants operational authority before jurisdictional boundaries are defined. A certificate automation path bypasses enforcement because exceptions inherit trust without policy. A parallel clearing system processes $24 billion outside institutional oversight before winding down. A health platform aggregates 400,000 patient documents outside clinical record governance.
Regulation. Automation. Finance. Healthcare. Each system scales in a different domain. Each operates outside its governing perimeter.
What remains unresolved is whether authority can reassert itself over systems that reached operational scale without it.
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VERDICT_MODE: INSTITUTIONAL_FRAME
PRESSURE_CLASS: COMPOSITE
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