For another example of similar politician behavior just look at how LA is handling the graffiti towers. They're driven by concern about being on the national stage and the corruption of the whole system being put on display, not about the graffiti.
This isn't a realistic solution because the difficulty of identifying people abusing these devices is high. The usual US approach is to jack penalties up way high to offset the low probability of capture, which inevitably leads to disproportionate sentences and an even greater erosion of respect for the legal system.
Because such a flood is now easy to trigger, phones now implement rate limiting that effectively mitigates the attacks. After all, you're not legitimately going to see 1,000 Apple TVs trying to connect at once, so there's no need to give each one of them personal attention.
IIRC this is in Canada, but in US (and probably Canada too), FCC has rules against creating harmful interference. Fine + punish the people creating the interference, rather than the tools that people can use to learn, debug + protect these devices that are vulnerable.