【大紀元2025年08月12日訊】編者按：「名流國際」特邀嘉賓帕斯汀（Michael Pastine）是紐約州立大學Old Westbury分校的首席信息官，同時也是福坦莫大學（Fordham University）的客座教授，在信息技術與高等教育領域擁有數十年的豐富經驗。他深知在數字時代，真相、透明與思想自由的重要意義。
2025年8月10日，帕斯汀參加了全球退黨服務中心在紐約舉辦的慶祝4億5千萬人退出中共黨、團、隊組織的集會，並分享了他對技術的獨到見解——技術應當賦予人們力量，而絕不應該淪為控制與奴役的工具。Michael Pastine的演講全文如下：
技術時代的思想自由
大家早上好！
今天能站在這裡，與大家一起參與這場充滿力量的集會，我感到無比榮幸。這是一個追尋真相的時刻，一個彰顯勇氣的時刻，一個在謊言與數字操控充斥的世界中，難得的清明時刻。
我在信息技術與高等教育領域工作了幾十年，深刻體會到一個事實：信息就是力量。而當這種力量被壓制、當真相被扭曲，人類自由的根基就會動搖。
中共早已意識到這一點。這就是它為什麼要嚴密封鎖網絡、全天候監控公民、篡改歷史、打壓思想。在數字化時代，它的手段更加精密，但目的始終如一：通過控制信息，來控制人心。
然而，真相自有無可抗拒的力量。
今天，我們要為超過4.5億勇敢的中國人致敬——他們主動選擇退出中共及其附屬組織，打破了謊言的圍牆。他們是數字時代與精神層面的「覺醒者」，毅然決然地離開了一個將權力凌駕於人民之上、將控制置於良知之上的體制。
我們也要為「打倒中共惡魔」（End CCP）全球聯署活動而喝采，目前已有超過500萬人簽名。這些簽名，不只是名字，更是一個個有良知的聲音，是任何技術都無法掩蓋的道義坐標。
作為一名教育者，我一直告訴我的學生：在數字世界中，倫理、真相與自由不是附屬品，而是根本原則。一個懼怕信息、封鎖歷史、監控人民的政權，並不強大，而是虛弱的——而它註定無法長久。
《九評共產黨》揭開了中共意識形態內部的腐敗與虛偽，由此引發了一場巨大的覺醒。中共對此心懷恐懼——而他們確實應該恐懼。
讓我們記住：思想的自由，是人類抵禦專制最強大的「防火牆」。只要人們依然選擇真相，就沒有任何程序、任何監控系統、任何獨裁政權能夠徹底戰勝人類的精神與良知。
謝謝大家，願自由的火焰繼續燃燒——無論在中國、在美國，還是在數字世界的每一個角落。
英文原文：
Editor’s Note:
Specially Invited Representative of Celebrity International Michael Pastine is the Chief Information Officer of SUNY Old Westbury and a visiting professor at Fordham University. Mr. Pastine has decades of experience in information technology and higher education. He understands the importance of truth, transparency, and freedom of thought in the digital age.
On August 10, 2025, Michael Pastine participated in a rally held by the Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in New York City to celebrate 450 million people quitting the CCP, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers. He shared his unique perspective on technology: technology should empower people, never become a tool of control and enslavement. The full text of Michael Pastine’s speech is as follows:
Freedom of Thought in the Age of Technology
Good morning, everyone.
It is my great honor to join you today at this powerful rally — a moment of truth, a moment of courage, and a moment of clarity in a world often clouded by propaganda and digital manipulation.
As someone who has spent his career in information technology and higher education, I know firsthand that information is power — and when that power is suppressed, when truth is distorted, the very foundation of human freedom is threatened.
The Chinese Communist Party has long recognized this. That’s why it censors the internet, monitors its citizens, rewrites history, and punishes thought. In the digital age, their methods have evolved, but the goal remains the same: control minds by controlling information.
But truth has a power all its own.
Today, we celebrate over 450 million brave Chinese individuals who have made the conscious decision to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Each one of them has broken through the wall of lies. Each one is a digital and spiritual defector — walking away from a system that values power over people, and control over conscience.
We also celebrate the End CCP petition, now signed by over 5 million people across the globe. These are not just signatures. They are voices. They are data points in a moral movement that technology cannot suppress.
As an educator, I teach my students that ethics, truth, and freedom are not optional in the digital world — they are essential. A regime that fears information, censors its history, and monitors its people is not strong — it is weak. And it will fall.
The 「Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party」 exposed the ideological rot at the heart of the CCP. That exposure began a great awakening. The CCP fears that awakening — and they should.
Let this rally remind us that freedom of thought is humanity’s most powerful firewall. And as long as people choose truth, no algorithm, no surveillance system, and no dictatorship can win.
Thank you, and may the flame of freedom continue to burn — in China, in America, and in every corner of the digital world.
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