The first ever use of social media to induce a political movement in Egypt was the call made in 2008 for a public strike on the 6th of April. The Facebook-instigated strike was to protest against the rise in the cost of bread, amongst other basic commodities. The Facebook group of April 6 Youth Movement attracted around 70,000 members from across the nation and calls were supported through Twitter, SMS’s, blogs and word-of-mouth. Police forces managed to disperse protestors in a matter of hours, and the episode failed to achieve any results other than the detaining of its organisers and central supporters. In the years to follow, Egyptians resorted to the freedom that digital media provided to compensate for the civil freedoms they lacked under the totalitarian regime that subjugated every liberty to be had. The Egyptian state had diminished freedoms and civil rights by means of censorship, oppression and the unprecedented use of brutal force under the unending Emergency ...