Florida Accidentally Bans All Smartphones With New Internet Cafe Law

Florida’s new ban on internet cafes is being challenged as unconstitutional since its broad wording could be interpreted as a ban on all electronic devices, including personal computers, smartphones, and tablets. According to Miami Law firm Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine the law was essentially created in haste to amend the law to define a slot machine as “a device, system, or network is a prohibited slot machine or device if it is used to display images of games of chance and is part of a scheme involving any payment or donation of money or its equivalent and awarding anything of value.”

The law was intended to ban physical slot machines posing as internet cafes, but the vague law can also be interpreted as a ban on machines or systems that can be used to play games with rewards of any sort.

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