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X is allowing people you’ve blocked to see your posts


Now block is more like mute.

Musk claimed that stopping people from seeing your public posts “makes no sense,” but due to a post-Musk change that stops logged-out users from scrolling even a public profile, this could make it easier for blocked users to continue harassing someone. But as Tracy Chou, who launched the anti-harassment tool Block Party, said in a post on X, “...the point is that friction matters!! Apple’s guidelines that apps with user-generated content must have “The ability to block abusive users from the service.”

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