I can, do, and will. There has to be room in the charity ecosystem for organizations that take risks.

It remains to be seen whether this blunder will actually destroy the Internet Archive.

In general, I think the idea that good things have to last forever is overrated. Organizations willing to compromise their values eventually drift away from those values completely, which is worse than simply ceasing to exist--such organizations can linger on and do more harm than good.

How is staying out of this altogether “compromising their principles?”

"Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge."[1]

That is pretty unambiguous.

[1] https://archive.org/about/

EDIT: The previous version of this post was unnecessarily combative, in response to what may have been a good faith question. Sorry.