At least in this case, there aren’t any “false assumptions”.
For a country governed by a so called “communist” party, there are glaring inequalities. If we limit ourselves to free Internet usage, it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people would only be able to consume government approved content, whereas elites could have access to anything.
> it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people would only be able to consume government approved content
That's not by design, that's just the virtue of human ingenuity. Give us something we ain't supposed to do, and people will invest a lot of effort to still make it work.
Case in point; For a while Germany wanted to put Internet filters in place, based on DNS blocks [0]
Trivial to circumvent for anybody remotely familiar with networking, yet seemingly impossible for the vast majority of people who have no expertise in the field.
Was it designed like that to lock out the poor, uneducated, Germans?
How does having "a communist" party imply that there would be no inequalities? Especially given that merely a few decades ago China was poor like hell and everyone outsourced all the cheap labor there?
> it’s clear that the system is designed so poor or uneducated people
Isn't education in China largely sponsored by government?
Over the years, I came to understand that contradictions are almost always just false assumptions.