Honestly, the more I think about it the more I'm leaning towards total ban. I think the grey market stuff crowds out the white market stuff. Doug needs to be preserved. Putting aside his family and freedom for a moment (which I'm not downplaying the significance of), but instead thinking tactically:
We don't have enough normal people who have their real name and face out there, who don't scare newcomers, who are advocating for the fully (in terms of legality) legitimate use cases for Monero. He can and will talk IRL to real people and advocate for the cause and won't say edgelord shit that will preempt a lot of those conversations from happening. He can sign his real name on contracts. He can organize IRL events like monerotopia. He can found the Nodo. Most Monero people are thermonuclear (myself included) to institutions and normies. This doesn't mean that we aren't valuable, it just means that we need an army of people like Doug (even if it's a small one) before we even remotely consider risking his ass in another crypto persecution case. Honestly, I think he should shift all ownership of xmrbazaar to someone else. I think xmrbazaar should clamp down and be strictly white market only, publish the code open source, and some other team should run xmrgray off of the xmrbazaar code base. These prosecutions are egregious and they've already shown that they will throw all sense of normality or precedence or legal process needed to nail the real freedom people to the fucking wall in crypto.