I wish those articles referred to this by its proper name: it's not about creating an internet "fast lane", it's about creating "slow lanes" for people not willing to pay extra for the "normal lane".
On the good side, all this will mean in the long run is that the VPN industry will be booming. No bandwidth throttling via VPN, after all.
While they can't discriminate between types of traffic on a VPN, they can throttle all VPN traffic, and react to higher VPN bandwidth use. And probably will, if allowed to.
So if there were FCC rules that came out saying the ISPs couldn't have slower access than they currently do and they can't completely block access to any legal server, would you be ok with that?
On the good side, all this will mean in the long run is that the VPN industry will be booming. No bandwidth throttling via VPN, after all.