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> Or they can save a lot of effort and just block it locally.

That's essentially the purpose of DNS bans. They are enforced by a given jurisdiction, but they let you solve the root problem rather than running around host providers in foreign jurisdictions.

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No, that doesn't work. If anybody could say what should happen globally, and nobody would argue about it, then we wouldn't need courts and borders. The whole point of courts and borders and jurisdictions is to resolve disputes. We wouldn't have copyright law if there weren't copyright disputes. So you can't just say "if any court anywhere decides something, it should apply globally." Because the next court over, in the next jurisdiction, can rule the opposite way. What then?

You seem to believe that my comment implies that laws should apply worldwide, while it simply states that DNS bans are by construction localized.

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