Stop TimelineHome from serving DMCA and geo-restricted media - #187
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TES media legal/geo rules lived only on TimelineHomeRecommendations. Post-level legal takedown already drops on TimelineHome. Followee cards with DMCA media or a matching geo list therefore served on Following and For You in-network.
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Parking this intern-stack PR per operator GitHub cleanup (2026-09-08). Hunt notes remain local. Not a reject of the class. |
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DropLegalTakendownPostRuleandDropLocalLawsTakendownPostRulesit inTES_HOME_DROPSand fire on both TimelineHome and TimelineHomeRecommendations.DropTweetsWithDmcaMediaRuleandDropTweetsWithGeoRestrictedMediaRulesat only inTIMELINE_HOME_RECOMMENDATION_ONLY_RULES.TES can mark media
has_dmca_mediaor attach a geo allow/deny list without a post-levelTakedownReason. Those followee posts scored at TimelineHome (Following, and For You in-network) and served.Five-line proof
has_dmca_mediaand mediageo_allow_list/geo_deny_list.TES_HOME_DROPS(shared).RECS_MEDIA_DROPSwas recommendation-only, so TimelineHome never evaluated those rows.VFCandidateHydratorscores followee / Following ids at TimelineHome.Twin:
TakedownReason::Dmcadrops on TimelineHome; media-level DMCA / geo does not. This is not #113 (account vs request country) and not #110 (labelapplicable_countries).Fix
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RECS_MEDIA_DROPSintoTIMELINE_HOME_SHARED_RULESafterTES_HOME_DROPS(drops still precede interstitials). NSFW / DNA / spam recommendation-only rows stay OON-only.Tests (must fail on unmodified main)
legal_media_drops_on_timeline_home(fails on unmodified main)dmca_media_drops_in_networkcorpus case (wasdmca_media_allows_in_network)geo_denied_media_drops_in_networkcorpus casewired_rule_order_matches_pre_migration_sequencenow lists the two media rules on TimelineHomecargo: cannot run. Public dump has no visibility-filtering manifest.
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