“…So, one of the threats to critical civil society is an environment saturated with ‗no public opinion'. (Ortiz, 2015) Using these tools and approaches, the state in power is trying to control the virtual public sphere, just as it has taken control of the public domain. Egyptian security forces, for example, blocked access to Cairo's Tahrir Square, the highly symbolic focal point of the 2011 revolution, after a series of social media videos posted by Mohamed Ali, a former military contractor living in self-imposed exile in Barcelona who called for a million Egyptians to march against the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on Friday, 27 th September 2019.…”