It’s Impossible to Keep Your Baby off the Internet

Hours after a baby is born, its internet presence begins — no matter what we try to do to stop it

Mike Pearl
OneZero
Published in
8 min readMar 30, 2021

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Photo: Isabel Pavia/Getty Images

The day after my wife delivered our first baby, a photographer knocked on the door of our hospital room and offered to take pictures. We were sleep-deprived, dazed from the realization that everything we once…

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Mike Pearl
OneZero
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Writer on the hypothetical question beat. Covering climate, war, and the future at VICE. Outbursts and opinions here. Plz never @ me mike.pearl@vice.com