But this doesn't mean having the vendor control publication is going to get you any benchmarks that are better. We can predict pretty easily that the benchmark

But this doesn't mean having the vendor control publication is going to get you any benchmarks that are better. We can predict pretty easily that the benchmarks they publish will be skewed in their favour. On the other hand, we can't predict what solutions society comes up with for dealing with incompetent benchmarks. For example, you say professional bloggers would do lousy jobs, but this is exaclty the kind of things that neckbeard hobbyist bloggers would take upon themselves and do excellent jobs at. That or other solutions could emerge, but the whole point of censorship is to prevent that.