You're probably familiar with your electric bill, right? You get charged for what you use, not how you use it. The power company doesn't care whether you have a drill press in your garage, a server farm in your basement, or an herb garden under some heavy-duty lights.

The argument happening now is about the same thing, but with Internet access.

Since the creation of the Internet, the federal government, through the FCC, has required your Internet provider to treat all of your activity equally. Your Internet company is not allowed to charge you differently for what you do with your Internet. They're certainly allowed to charge you more if you use more, but they're not allowed to charge you more because you spend 10 hours a day on Reddit and not Yahoo. We would like it to stay this way.