Well (from what I've read and how I've understood everything), but your ISP could decide to block access to the AO3 completely or ask for additional money in order for you to access it.
I haven't heard of the blocking thing, just that they might slow your access to it (which won't matter with text-based websites). Anyway, I'm Canadian so I may not be clear on the details. Our news media hasn't spent much time discussing this issue, since it's a US thing.
Here is a Tumblr post that mentions it (because basically - companies did it already before Net Neutrality became reality): https://marthawells.tumblr.com/post/167834688527/prokopetz-gacorley-prokopetz-the-whole-net
I'm also not from the US but managed to stay fairly up to date with this due to friends. I don't know all the details also but, yeah, no matter what - this isn't a good thing.
(Also, it's not all about downloading stuff and streaming TV shows/movies/whatever. Just imagine being hard of hearing/deaf, communicating largely via video and then you'd get charged huge amounts of money in order to have internet speed so that you are able to communicate via video. Imagine your ISP blocking, let's say, Google because your ISP (or their mother) owns a rival search engine. And so on.)
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