> To be fair, twitter ownership is not required to use twitter for this purpose.

I understood that remark as a reference to the way Musk's bid to buy Twitter with no intention to follow-through, in light of other shameless PR ploys like the absurd political persecution claim, looks like a shameless attempt to distract people from other problems affecting Musk, such as Tesla's tanking stock price.

True, but it's good insurance against (the unlikely event of) being banned for doing so.

Quite expensive insurance