Flutter’s Modern Slavery Statement (opens in new tab)

I think all UK companies of a certain size need to publish something like this. E.g. "Dyson" was the first UK-based company that popped into my head, and I found this: https://www.dyson.com/inside-dyson/terms/modern-slavery-stat...

Is there something particular about this one of note?

Note that slavery is still legal in the USA, and they don’t specifically say they won’t use such labor in the US.

Text of 13th amendment (note the disclaimers) https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/

Prisons are the main source of slave labor / involuntary servitude in the US, and provide over a million workers.

For Flutter Entertainment plc, not to be confused by Flutter.io (Google's Cross-platform UI Toolkit).

In my head modern slavery is the cheap and dangerous labor in other countries we rely on altogether; even the voluntary workers. It doesn't make sense to me that we still so easily value the lives of people who happen to be born somewhere else lower than those who were born more nearby. Why don't we pay the same minimum wage we do here in other countries? Or require the same safety measures etc? Yet we all just play along quietly endorsing widespread use of power to further inequality as long as it suits us.

Wait, what?? Hold on a second. Why do they feel the need to say this? Some important piece of information is being omitted here. It's like if you bought a box of cereal and it said on it, "Now, with 50% less cyanide!"

I don't mean to sounds cynical, but what is this really going to do besides signaling to investors how much they "care".

If the company was a mine, or some other business with a large on the ground operation in places where modern slavery is a thing, then I could see a statement like this holding water.

But you guys arent a mine, or a lumber factory, you provide online gambling services. I'm really struggling to see what they could possibly do one way or the other in terms of modern slavery besides the usual like auditing your vendors, but again, hard to imagine them having vendors that employ modern slavery given their market.