A television show trailer featuring Aboriginal women painted in ochre for a traditional ceremony has been pulled from Facebook due to the social media platform's nudity guidelines.

The show's co-creator Trisha Morton-Thomas described the decision as "utterly ridiculous".

"I was a bit stunned at first and then started laughing," she told 105.7 ABC Darwin.

Ms Morton-Thomas and her collaborators this month uploaded a video to Facebook to promote their new Indigenous black comedy show based in the Northern Territory, 8MMM.

The 2:46-minute trailer features two scenes in which elderly Aboriginal women have their breasts bare for traditional ceremony.

The video had amassed about 30,000 hits before it was removed by Facebook and the group received an automatic notification about the video containing potentially offensive nudity.

Ms Morton-Thomas said the group was initially confused about the social media platform's censorship policy.

"It took us a while to get in contact with Facebook. We're not a very technologically savvy lot.

"I just don't understand how mothers breastfeeding or dancing ceremonially [can be] offensive."

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Facebook has received criticism in the past for its censorship policy, most notably in the case of breastfeeding photos being automatically removed.

Last month the platform clarified its "community standards" following global campaigns about the display of women breastfeeding.

Senior editor of technology news website, CNET, Nic Healey said some images are still being caught up in the platform's censorship policy.

Mr Healey said he had never before seen traditional Aboriginal ceremonies pulled by Facebook due to concerns about nudity.

"But it does fit into the censorship profile of what we've seen in the past," he said.

Mr Healey said it was important to remember that Facebook would need to have received a complaint from one of its users before removing the video.

This means one of the people who watched 8MMM's video would have had to have flagged its content as offensive.

"You can't blame Facebook. It's probably a random user," Mr Healey said.

The creators of 8MMM on Sunday upload their trailer to YouTube, which has not yet flagged its content as offensive.

Ms Morton-Thomas said the experience had highlighted a degree of hypocrisy by people on the internet.

"The other day I saw a video going around that had a woman in a micro bikini and I thought: 'why didn't she just go naked?'," she said.

"There's a lot going on in Australia and if you're going to be offended by women dancing topless, you need to get your priorities straight.

"I hope people see the funny side of it and have a laugh."

