That formulation seems odd, Marc. Why say "uncensored" in the title as if that is the key to noir's "survival" and not repeat it in the ostensibly more elaborate question posed in the message text?

The problem with the term "woke" is that it is different things to different people.

The problem with the term "noir" is highly similar, only a good bit less politically charged.

The problem with an "American legacy" for noir is that it is an incomplete and inaccurate rendering of the noir phenomenon, which can (and should) be rightfully traced back to the novelists of nineteenth-century France. We need to remove the lingering cultural imperialism that posits such primacy for the American version of noir, which was not in fact the first version of it and didn't survive as a practicing form as long as it did in other nations, particularly France and Japan).

As it moves into the sixties, noir is subverted by the Nouvelle Vague, the end of everyday black & white cinematography and the continued proliferation of proxy wars in the "Superpower 1.0" era--all of which alters its focus. In America, noir morphs into "retro" and "neo," becomes more overtly sexual, eventually going "woke" with multi-racial and alternate lifestyle variants.
Now, in the "Superpower 2.0" era, turned rotten and corrupt from the rise of oligarchy, noir is vulnerable to the parallel "golden age" of pornography, but who knows for sure if that is a sealed doom or another step toward a form of liberation not currently articulate or accessible in the splatter of greivance and greed?

To return to the original formulation, I'm wondering how censorship is somehow the step that can combat whatever "ongoing evils" are in play as a result of policies that attempt to undo the increasing concentration of wealth in the USA and elsewhere.

In my view, noir still needs to have its proper world history so that its legacy can be seen as what was produced in the time frame prior to the unfortunate decision to take the greyscale out of the aesthetic formulation. What'a happened after is more or less centripetal variations on a theme that has abandoned the yearning for redemption that was always at least latent in its original dynamics...