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An organization can’t outwardly support it because that would be a legal nightmare once participants get hurt or die as a direct result of it. They may also struggle to get events sanctioned by the jurisdictions that they’re hosting the events in.
That said, there are plenty that turn a blind eye to it as best they can, as others have pointed out.
That was a meme. The original ads were always “you wouldn’t steal a car”. Someone doctored a screenshot from the ad as a joke and now there are a whole bunch of people who think the ads actually said that.