The logic seems clear to me: if you want people to be able to make use of/benefit from your published knowledge/artifacts you would want people to be able to f

The logic seems clear to me: if you want people to be able to make use of/benefit from your published knowledge/artifacts you would want people to be able to find it when they are searching for that kind of published knowledge/artifact. People use search engines to perform the search for published knowledge/artifacts. Thus, publishing knowledge/artifacts but restricting them such that they cannot be found is a set of simultaneous contradictory actions.