X now lets blocked customers see your posts

The block button on X has changed. Now, it permits blocked customers to see posts of the accounts that blocked them, however they nonetheless can’t work together with these accounts. You can also’t comply with or message the consumer.

X beforehand stated it was making the change as a result of customers can already see and work together with blocked accounts by switching to a non-blocked account. X additionally stated blocking the previous means could possibly be used to share and conceal dangerous or non-public details about these they’ve blocked, so the brand new characteristic permits “larger transparency.”

Specialists on social-media abuse disagree, noting these modifications will assist stalkers and trolls. “Enabling blocked customers to see posts is catering to abusers and stalkers, indulging and facilitating their behaviors,” wrote London Victims’ Commissioner Claire Waxman final month.

Whereas that’s unlikely to sway opinion at X, the modifications could run afoul of guidelines on iOS and Google Play app shops. Apple, for one, states in its developer phrases of service that any apps with user-generated content material should provide “the power to dam abusive customers from the service.” There’s nonetheless a block button, after all, but it surely’s probably not blocking anybody anymore.

— Mat Smith

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