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X Slammed for Allowing Blocked Users to See Posts Anyway: 'Countless People Will Be Put in Definitive Danger'

The change, announced in September, will take effect "soon" according to an update from X engineering Wednesday

Numerous users pointed out the obvious problems with that — particularly how the explanation ignores that blocking is also used to preventor stop harassment. Still others noted that under the direction of owner Elon Musk, X (formerly Twitter) has made numerous changes that actually reduce transparency. When the update was first announced in September, Musk celebrated it, posting, ““High time this happened.” He’d previously said outright that argued that blocking people “ makes no sense ” and that the mute function should be users sole recourse.

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