Sometimes it's a little showy and really more intended to harm than help, yeah. In this case it's probably more like this: Government is selling everyone body

Sometimes it's a little showy and really more intended to harm than help, yeah. In this case it's probably more like this: Government is selling everyone body expensive armour that claims to protect your vitals against BIC pen stabbings, built by contractors who are buddies with those in power. A group of hackers walk around and take pictures of holes on people's armours. They also demonstrate stabbing a dummy wearing said expensive armour.