The followup is a bold claim with no receipts. He should share the uni's letter otherwise I won't believe it.

What might have happened is that UW offered that he could keep the website up if he changed the project in such a way a way that the university is happy with it.

We don't know how much escalation has happened already, maybe he gave grounds for UW to not give him the account back because he has indicated he wouldn't back down and try to find a way to get his project to work nonetheless.