Escalating Penalties Threaten Digital Startups

The provision imposes 500 penalty units plus 100 units per day of continued non-compliance with Division orders, creating unlimited financial liability that accumulates indefinitely. For digital startups and small media organizations, this escalating penalty structure creates existential financial risk that forces compliance regardless of whether Division orders are legally sound. The provision provides no proportionality safeguards or consideration of a publisher's size or resources, and 76 creates a pathway where administrative non-compliance becomes criminal liability. This structure creates severe barriers to entry in Ghana's digital media sector and discourages innovation by making regulatory risk impossible to quantify.