Norway’s gambling regulator has convinced Facebook to pull three dozen online gambling pages from the social media platform for promoting their wares to local punters without local permission.

On Monday, the Lotteritilsynet regulatory agency announced that Facebook had yanked 36 online gambling sites’ pages after being notified by the regulator that the pages were in violation of Norway’s gambling laws.

Among the operators cited in the announcement were the Gamesys Group’s Vera&John online casino brand, Coolbet’s Kommunepoker and Vennepoker brands, Gaming Innovation Group’s Rizk brand (now part of the Betsson Group) and Cherry AB’s ComeOn brand (which earlier this year lost a Norwegian eSports sponsorship opportunity due to local protests).

The Norwegian-language pages encouraged customers to patronize the internationally licensed gambling sites that compete with Norway’s state-run operators Norsk Tipping and Norsk Rikstoto. In addition to cracking down on unauthorized marketing, Norway’s government has been targeting payment processing and imposing domain-blocking to ensure the financial health of its online monopoly.