I'm considering to buy and hold some privacy coins for long term. I read some articles and they said governments are taking harsh stances on privacy coins. Do you think they will ban all privacy cryptocurrencies by prohibiting exchanges to list those coins?
It is physically not possible.
They can not ban anything that is out of their control. They can only ban some use case like using cryptocurrencies as a payment method etc. But if you buy and keep them, no one government can withdraw them from you.
Go ahead and buy some.
Prefer main currencies like BTC, ETH.
Smth that you can always sell.