Elon Musk’s X has been modified so that accounts you’ve blocked on the social platform can still see your public posts.

X updated his Help Center page over the weekend to explain how site blocking now works. While you can still block accounts, those accounts will now be able to see your posts unless you’ve made your account private. However, they will not be able to reply or repost them. Also, blocked accounts will not be able to follow you and you will not be able to follow them, as was the case before the policy change.

Additionally, if the owner of an account you’ve blocked visits your profile on X, they’ll be able to find out that you’ve blocked them.

X indicated that the change was intended to protect users who were blocked.

In a post on his Engineering account on the service, X said the block feature “can be used by users to share and hide harmful or private information about those they have blocked. Users will be able to see if such behavior is occurring with this update, allowing for greater transparency.”

But critics say the changes could harm victims and survivors of abuse, for example. Thomas Ristenpart, a professor of computer security at Cornell Tech and co-founder of the Clinic to End Tech Abuse, said it can be critical to the safety of survivors of intimate partner violence to be able to control who sees their posts.

“We often hear reports of social media posts allowing abusers to follow them or triggering further harassment,” he said. “Removing the ability for users to block problematic people will be a big step backwards for the safety of survivors.”

Since taking over the former Twitter in 2022, Musk has relaxed the policies the platform had in place to crack down on hate and harassment. In moves said to be made in the name of free speech, he dismantled the company Trust and Safety Advisory Group and reinstated accounts that were previously banned for hate speech, harassment, and spreading misinformation. When a nonprofit research group has documented: a increase in hate speech on the platform, X sued them. The process was dismissed.