If it isn't already a "law," one should be that the more complex a software system gets the more it tends towards control over user actions. There is probably

If it isn't already a "law," one should be that the more complex a software system gets the more it tends towards control over user actions. There is probably a network-related corollary that in a networked software systems, over time, as they get more complex they tend towards more user monitoring and reporting.