New rules won't stop idiots being idiots, or criminals being criminals.
It'll just class a bunch of idiots and ignorants as criminals, as well as classing a whole bunch of existing fliers who are not breaking any current rules, as criminals.
It also won't stop China from selling the parts for, or whole drones/planes/helicopters that have no such geofencing restrictions, allowing said idiots, ignorants & 'criminals' to ship them from there in untracked and practically unmarked packages ('toy' on the customs declaration form is meaningless), then going out and flying them at distances not allowed and in places not allowed.
So basically all us RC airborne craft fliers are going to get screwed over because of a few morons & criminals, like those ones trying to drop stuff into prisons, and the perceived danger of them near airports - someone should tell the law proposal makers you can't regulate stupidity, it doesn't bloody work!
The police force is already streched so I don't know how they'll cope when suddenly a bunch more people are classed as criminals because of a law change - and it's not like every police officer knows every law in detail, especially new ones that come into play - just look at the problems photographers have had in public places over the recent years. Not to mention some of the general public whose only knowlege of drones is spoon fed to them by sensational headlines in tabloid papers, who then think people who fly drones are only doing to to spy on people etc. and the police should be called...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
