I don't know who would pay money to watch truncated versions without the episodes that the gentlemen in the chair didn't like. Of all 70 episodes of Game of Thrones, only a couple will remain. Even in the Soviet Union they showed Darhk's bare ass without blurring in a tall blonde.
After covid, I never went to the cinema or subscribed to official online cinemas. There are now many ways to find uncensored movies for free or at reasonable prices.
The state whines all the time that it has no money, but it itself forces the population to carry rubles beyond the coffers into the pockets of the gray economy.
The example of China is completely irrelevant here. Cloud storage there is so cheap and developed that you can easily find any non-Chinese movie. Of course files are password protected and the links are distributed among other things, but in general the pirate system works more efficiently than a government block.
Chinese threat.