Routing around it

Both the instances quoted here fall under the rubric of unintended consequences. We really need to learn how to avoid them. As these two quotes show, however, unintended consequences often follow patterns -- in these cases, the same pattern you'll find in John Gilmore's celebrated phrase:

The net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it.

-- hence our title...

Consider: if there are patterns of unintended consequences, we should be able to learn them and... route around them.