Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts, owner Elon Musk said Friday in another controversial move for the company he bought last year.

The block function on X allows a user to restrict specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their posts or following them.

"Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature,' except for DMs," Musk said in a post on the platform, referring to direct messages.