Back in April, the state of Florida introduced a law that forced the closure of thousands of internet cafes in the state in order to prevent those establishments from being used by people for online gambling. However, the wording of the law might have a more far-reaching effect than intended and might ban any device capable of accessing an online gambling website including computers and smartphones.

This revelation comes as a result of a lawsuit by a former internet cafe owner who was forced to closed up shop as a result of the new law. His lawyers discovered some interesting language in the law in their work to get the law repealed by the court as unconstitutional.

The law is said to define illegal slot machines as any “system or network of devices” that may be used in a game of chance. That’s a pretty broad definition of illegal slot machines. While the law was designed to ban internet cafes, it could be applied to anything from computers to the whole of the internet. It is a network of connected devices that could be used to access online gambling websites, after all.

Source: Gizmodo