I agree, but I would qualify that, while removing profanity is easy to do, it is not easy to automate, and more importantly, it's not uncontroversial - just les

I agree, but I would qualify that, while removing profanity is easy to do, it is not easy to automate, and more importantly, it's not uncontroversial - just less controversial than removing hate speech. There are plenty of people who would be very upset about their comments being removed just because they contained profanity.