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I don't think it's naturally emergent. It's just another case of a centralized entity making some rules people need to follow or else they get banned. It's not too dissimilar from what would happen on eBay if someone complains about a seller.

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What if centralized authories are naturally emergent because individuals demand them?

I'm happy to call it naturally emergent as long as we also call Amazon and eBay's policies naturally emergent, but doing that would be rather vacuous.

Turns out, all of existence is naturally emergent.

maybe we could avoid that issue by saying that some sort of minimal central authority is naturally emergent

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