Barney Frank actually said...

I don't think we should ban either poker or anything else that is voluntary, doesn't hurt anybody else, including gambling.

Do we single out the Internet for specific prohibitions and restrictions?

I had thought there was a consensus in this Congress, particularly strongly held by my Republican colleagues: Hands off the Internet, don't ...

We should neither encourage it nor discourage it. And not making something illegal is not an encouragement of it or an endorsement of it.