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While commentators in the West have often described censorship-evading practices like this as a form of \u201cresistance\u201d against state domination, little academic attention has been paid to how and why recoding holds political and cultural significance. The prism of visibility, by conceptualizing recoding as a cultural response to censorship, opens up a more critical perspective to comparatively analyze examples drawn from both China and the United States. 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