For me a ban means no coins can transact, i.e. it is legal action that requires an unknown justification. Rather blacklisting would be a different legal action that has established justifications already in AML, KYC laws, etc.
Okay difference of terminology then. I have been referring to a "ban" as a ban on anonymity, and a ban on anonymity as being a effective ban on a coin that has as its primary merit anonymity. Sure there are unblacklisted coins being mined, by why would anyone even want them?
We agree that if a ban on anonymity is imposed and is actually effective, then there will be no anonymity. To me that is fairly obvious and uninteresting.
And if no one would want to mine the unblacklisted coins, wouldn't pools emerge that don't enforce the blacklist, either because they are in a jurisdiction that doesn't force them to, or they can otherwise evade any requirement to blacklist? It seems like a ban on anonymity would have to be more than just a blacklist if that's the case.