I placed this in Politics and Society because I know most of the real idiots don't sub this board. I enjoyed the discussion. It will be interesting to see if society at large tolerates lawlessness created by this technology or bans it and imprisons its developers. They started a war with Iraq under the pretense that they had aluminum tubes. It doesn't take much to bring down the holy ban hammer.
I think you're confusing society with government here. You mention society, and at the same time ban and imprisonment but since society is not the one that decides neither to ban nor to imprison I think that government(s) is the proper word.
However, society's role is even more important than the one governments can play regarding cryptos simply by accepting them or not.