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it's enforceable with court order when in custody or as part of a probationary program. i've had to investigate and enforce this very thing while working the enforcement desk at Health and Human Services while a deputy sheriff, and it's usually boils down to restricting access to networks physically (air-gapped), electronic communication devices, the forced use of proxies when in custodial housing, and random checks throughout the week complete with searching their persons and talking to people who interact with them. their aliases and habits are recorded as best possible and those places and ones like it are randomly searched for similar patterns or names or other metadata related to the person (uploaded photos for example).
while the tech LE uses isn't exactly new, some is fairly sophisticated and there's the whole "we can put you back in jail or prison for violation of a court order" that tends to keep people on the straight and narrow. compulsives "just can't help it" and have bullshit justifications for various things (like they must talk or interact with collectible toy forums or something, yes that's a thing that some child molesters are into) and cannot see why the court would restrict that activity.
if people cooperate and seem to stick with the program for early release or supervised housing, et c then the restriction usually ease up over time. if Lucas isn't part of any such custodial or supervised program, then the order is enforceable, but he would be walking a thin line where even the accusation of violating the order might get him a mandatory custodial stay at a state facility; even if he's not actively being monitored or part of a group home or something. LE can also do things that attach orders to someone's SSN in order to monitor opening new accounts with service providers or watch their credit cards for charges related to whatever it is they are restricted from.
all that being said, this is usually reserved for people convicted of relatively serious crimes (afore mentioned child molestation). simple trespass wouldn't result in this, even alleged stalking with a signed restraining order wouldn't result in this either. i think Lucas lost ready access to his accounts in some way (physically or logistically). i think it's likely to be a logical reason, as he would likely have acquired a new phone, but perhaps a new phone number, and if multi-factor authentication is enabled and he has no access to the old phone number, it's possible he has no way (or is too inept) to access the accounts to remove MFA and regain control. the question ends up being: if he just wants to spread the Word of Lucas, the account itself should be irrelevant, so why not just make a new account at all? what would be preventing that, or causing hesitation?
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