As this manifesto is read, platforms like Google-Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle and Palantir are gathering the data of billions of people across the planet. The hegemony of BigTechs does not appear from a neutral technological development, but is a reflection of the new stage of capitalistic accumulation that combines data capture, invasion of privacy, behaviour modulation and concentration of critical infrastructure and technological expertise. BigTech companies fulfill the role of ideological apparatus of fascism, working as a tool of control as well as war.

Data functions as the main input of so-called Artificial Intelligence, concentrated within the infrastructure of the digital oligopolies, it works to deepen the techno-economical dependency, currently called digital colonialism. Through the power of lobby, these companies work towards impeding the advancement of regulatory legislation and of protection of our democracy or our technological development.

The architecture of these platforms profit from the engagement potentialized by hate and disinformation in service of the global extreme right. Unlike what they try to sell us as the free and autonomous internet, the platforms work today as tools of dissemination of neofascist doctrine and of antidemocratic individualism. As such, the antifascist struggle is inseparable from the fight towards the breakdown of BigTechs hegemony. 

We denounce that Brazilian universities have their email and research repositories handed over to the BigTechs that act with their regime of appropriation of scientific knowledge and of data to train their AI models. It is necessary that Brazil break off with its fiscalist regime, such as ‘Arcabouço Fiscal’ (fiscal framework), and start investing seriously in the scientific and technological sovereign development, through universities and public research institutes.

No work without rights! We denounce the platformization of work which offers no autonomy to the workers. In reality, it imposes algorithmic management as an invisible boss that dictates the rhythm, the remuneration and the survival of millions of workers. Furthermore, it deepens the exploration, the grueling working schedules and destroys the collective bonds fundamental for the organization of the working class.

The federal and state governments, and the many strategic public institutions now find themselves surrendered to the -power of the platforms. Our country, until now, has not built any type of digital sovereignty practices and watches its data being captured and controlled in order to maintain the subjugation of Brazil in a position of dependence.

It is necessary to build up the social majority to confront the domination of BigTechs. This manifesto seeks to dialogue with the many actions that fronts and collectives already constructed in Brazil, such as the Network for Digital Sovereignty, the Coalition for Rights on the Network, the Legal Internet Campaign, the National Forum for the Democratization of Communication, DIRACOM, the Nucleus of Technology of MTST, the Digital Collective, the Union of Journalists of São Paulo and UFABC’s Laboratory of Free Technologies.

There will be no definitive victory over fascism, nor the construction of a socialist alternative without confronting the power of BigTechs. Therefore, us, activists, militants and fighters, brought together in the 1st International Antifascist Conference in Porto Alegre call for:

1. Accountability of platforms for damages caused by disinformation, denialism, and the use of addictive technologies.
2. Democratic regulation of digital platforms.
3. Typification and dismantling of the financing and propagation networks of digital militias and neo-Nazi cells, with platform accountability.
4. Termination of all contracts between federal and state governments that deliver sensitive data of the Brazilian population to the clouds of foreign companies, such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Palantir, among others.
5. Investment in the creation of a Public Cloud, with federated infrastructures, low environmental impact, and under the control of the population.
6. Requirement of socio-environmental impact studies for the protection of water bodies and communities that may be affected by the installation of data centers.
7. Creation of multilateral digital and technological solutions with anti-imperialist civil and state organizations of the Global South.
8. Public and popular audit of the algorithmic recommendation codes and criteria of the platforms.
9. Guarantee of labor, social security, and union rights for all platform workers and an end to automatic blocks and punishments on apps. PLP 152 does not represent us!
10. Institution of public policies that prioritize the use of open, free, and auditable technologies in all spheres of public administration.
11. Inclusion of worker representatives in the areas of definition and monitoring of projects for the development and use of AI and other automated systems.
12. Against mass surveillance and for the immediate prohibition of the use of facial recognition and remote biometric identification technologies in public spaces.
13. Prevent the use of algorithms that automate and deepen the institutional racism of security forces.
14. Strengthening the Digital ECA (Statute of the Child and Adolescent) to guarantee the protection of sensitive data of children and adolescents.
15. For the criminalization of misogynistic and discriminatory practices in the virtual environment, combating redpill groups and similar groups that organize themselves through the Internet.
16. End of contracts between state and municipal basic education secretariats and BigTechs.

Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 27th, 2026

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