Even where controls are in place, any barrier, password or ringfence can be circumvented with just a click.
Orbán's critics' main contention is that the tax scheme could be easily circumvented by users changing their IP addresses or using foreign providers.
"But we have sadly seen … the wins obtained through Brown v Board, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act have been circumvented by failing school systems, the school to prison pipeline, red-lining, gentrification, voter ID laws".
He has circumvented the state monopoly on television news and made a large hole in a seemingly solid political system which he has ridiculed as a "toad sitting on an oil vent".
Outrageously unfavourable exchange rates imposed by banks when sending money abroad, once unavoidable, can now be circumvented via dozens of online money-changers.No matter which service fintech newcomers "unbundle" from incumbents, the banks' business model will suffer.
Even some explicit laws laid down in the Koran are routinely circumvented by Islamic judges.
And the debate that Napster sparked over music ownership, fan distribution, and artist royalties is still affecting the music industry today.Napster's system, which allowed fans to upload and share millions of music files for free, circumvented the music industry's business model and agitated artists.
But in previous cases of hostage-taking the Philippine authorities have circumvented this rule: for example, by paying the kidnappers vast amounts in expenses for the "board and lodging" of their captives.Even so, the demand for money, if and when it comes, is likely to be buried in a list of political demands.
But Mr Yanukovich has circumvented this "formality" and de facto appointed his own prime minister and cabinet.
The British government's attempt to block BitTorrent peer-to-peer sites was circumvented in a matter of hours.
