If a city hires a cop who openly accepts bribes, it's a problem for city hall. If they tolerate crooked cops, they are rightly painted as being corrupt as well.

If a government mandates age verification and tolerates companies like Yoti as enforcers of their law, it's exactly the same thing. If politicians aren't willing to see that new laws are enforced with integrity, then these corrupt politicians are the problem and need to face the consequences.

You're right but its not just the politicians unfortunately, one of the main reasons the general population isn't acutely aware of these kinds of occurrences(Yoti is not the only culprit) is because major news outlets don't give these stories the time of day. If were putting blame on politicians for their contributions to this problem we should also do the same for political news outlets. If they had a shred of moral decency and weren't corrupt they would allow and want this news to spread openly.