and tried to impose the first-ever bandwidth restrictions on AM by reducing AM activity to a "special exception." *
*(emphasis added by me)
And I still contend that
every time someone refers to AM as a 'Legacy Mode', 'specialty of AM', or any other warm-fuzzy attempt to place AM above or otherwise outside of the standard, accepted modes, we invite this kind of treatment.
Just say NO. Resist the urge to help others pigeon-hole AM as anything beyond an accepted, everyday mode of communication. Less is more, in this case.