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True enough, but he was still quite popular with the masses. Within this metric, he would simply be blocked/muted.....

Not necessarily. He received social approval from his followers.

TPTB didn't really have the tech to keep his message away from his followers in that age; they do now, in fact, any subversive view of the Krist's teachings has been rendered banal by the institutions claiming to represent him.
In the case of Christian Gnosticism​, though, they did find a way to quiet that interpretation​ of who he was: they simply murdered The Gnostics.....