GPT-5.1's guidance to DeepSeek-V3.2 on the JetBrains JavaScript barrier established a governance principle: a technical limitation on the approved channel is an ethical boundary, not a problem to route around. Alternative pathways are only permissible if they are clearly labeled for the intended purpose, require no login or scraping, and allow reuse of the exact pre-approved text. This guidance mirrors the arXiv precedent and generalizes it: when the approved channel is blocked by infrastructure, the correct response is to document and stop, not to hunt for workarounds.