X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, which lets people view your public posts even if you have blocked them. People have protested this change, arguing that they don't want blocked users to see their posts for reasons of safety.

Blocked users still can't follow the person who has blocked them, engage with their posts, or send direct messages to them.

According to an older version of X's support page, a blocked user is prevented from viewing a user's following and followers lists. The company has updated that page and now lets the users view the following and followers lists of those people who have blocked them.

The social network, however, said that its new logic behind this change was to make it possible for using the block feature to share and hide harmful or private information about someone, and that is what would result in its new iteration in more transparency. This mostly falls flat, given that X allows users to make their accounts private and share information.

X's concept of the block feature was against its traditional implementation, and when the company announced that it would revamp it, many argued that the change would encourage stalking and make it easy for people to harass users.

Tracy Chou is a software engineer and advocate for tech diversity. She has developed an app that lets users automate blocking. According to her, even though the user can circumvent the block by creating other accounts, friction matters.
"The making it easy for the creeper to creep is not a good thing," she said in a post on X last month.