How free are we really?

Democracy then degenerates into tyranny where no one has discipline and society exists in chaos. Democracy is taken over by the longing for freedom. Power must be seized to maintain order. A champion will come along and experience power, which will cause him to become a tyrant. The people will start to hate him and eventually try to remove him but will realize they are not able.

-Plato

Plato talked about Tyranny almost three thousand years ago and yet, we still experience this phenomena in the world of today. It saddens me deeply that these timeless words also apply to the online community I grew to respect; the stackexchange network.