Another similar point of view by Haywood suggested that information is a market driven commodity which has negative impacts on access to public sources of information(decreasing the number of public libraries). Therefore, when we look at democracy, politicians have become commodities( products of media) and the citizens become consumers. Second criticism is about surveillance and privacy issue. Internet is the most powerful source of the panoptic society (prison comparison was made by Jeremy Bentham in 18th century) thus it is a threat to privacy and moreover it is very difficult to distinguish information from disinformation. In privacy issue Moore points out the importance of encryption that enables citizens to encode messages that their recipients can read but are not readable by even the most computationally powerful codebreakes. (Which becomes the number one national security issue in USA). This encryption created two extremely powerful anti-panoptic weapons; digital cash that offers the possibility to built an electronic economy where the seller can verify that buyer's credit is good and digital signature, which establishes certainty about the sender of the message without knowing who the seller, or buyer is. The final criticism is hyperrealism. Hyperrealists see the use of Internet as a total replacement of the natural world and the social order with a technologically mediated hyper reality. Thus it became very difficult to distinguish the real and not real. There is a web of illusions and we are not aware that we are living at the center of all these illusions of all symbols, messages and simulations.
Mark Poster published an article "Cyberdemocracy" discussing the impacts of the Internet on democracy as Rheingold and Moore. He analyzed certain areas that the cyberspace has influenced; he access, technological determinism, encryption, commodification, intellectual property, public sphere, decentralization, anarchy, gender and ethnicity.