Can you really win anything from the government? Is any congressman going to stand up and say, "Hey, those porn producers have been so responsible lately, we should ease up on them and spend our money pursuing real crimes." No, that's not going to happen. They're going to harp on about protecting children from porn, video games, and locusts. No matter how well behaved the porn, video game, and locust producers are, they won't take notice, but if one messes up, they'll remind people how they were against them from the beginning and support more draconian rules.
This isn't to say that the porn industry should get sloppy and stop covering their asses, but it is to say that acting really responsibly isn't going to get noticed. You're also not going to see some congressman stand up and say, "I was at my local adult video store browsing through gay porn, and what did I see, but that Brent Corrigan fellow is starring in a DVD by Falcon, why that's almost like rewarding him for sneaking into the industry early. In fact I still haven't gotten a refund on my poolboy DVD. We should punish those porn producers by making them issue recalls and refunds to everyone who ever bought a DVD that turned out to have underage content. That would make them think twice about checking the age of their models, dagnabbit!"
Forgive me if I'm not the best writer of southern Republican politicians. If a politician witnesses porn in which a model is sodomizing a three year old they'll keep mum about it because they won't admit to having been on a porn site in the first place. You are their whipping boy, to be publicly whipped when you mess up and to be ignored when you're good. Trying to be good for the government is like a physically abused child trying to be good for their physically abusive parents. It's an unhealthy relationship.
Alright, a lot of emotion went into that and I suppose my arguments will be cut down. I do think things like the Brent Corrigan fiasco could encourage more kids to try to break into porn early so long as that kind of thing is rewarded, and that's good reason to be more vigilant in age checking, but I don't think that the government cares if you crucify the models and block them from the industry.