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Was anyone outraged at Plato's writings about Socrates?

Socrates was executed by the Athenian Assembly, after all, for such things as corrupting the youth and strengthening weaker arguments. I would imagine any supporter of his would sense some danger in continuing his philosophic thought. My question is when Plato began to write about his former master, did anyone object to his sympathetic portrayal? Was Plato initially disgraced or criticized?
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Plato was a part of the problem for Socrates, because of his family links to Charmides (his uncle) and Critias (his mother's uncle), members of the Thirty Tyrants who ruled Athens for a period after they lost the Peloponnesian War. Critias had himself been a student of Socrates'. The Thirty Tyrants oversaw large amounts of executions and the seizure of property of people they thought hostile to the state, leading to the death of as much as 5% of the Athenian population. By this token Athenians were *very* hostile to the Thirty Tyrants and their associates, which included Socrates by way of his association with Critias and Critias's family member Plato.

Socrates's association with the disgraced public figure Alcibiades didn't help either.