X is allowing people you’ve blocked to see your posts
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#6RZCN)
Illustration: The Verge This weekend, X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announced it's starting to launch" a controversial change to how blocking works on its platform. Company owner Elon Musk first revealed the change in September, which will allow people you've blocked to continue to see your posts, and, as noted by TechCrunch, your following and followers lists.
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.
In October, X's engineering account argued that people who block others could say harmful things about the blocked person who wouldn't know...