Britney Spears’ conservatorship: A timeline
March 2019: #FreeBritney begins circulating around social media
Fans begin protesting and questioning the validity of Spears’ conservatorship. FreeBritney.net, a website dedicated to documenting Spears’ conservatorship, gains traction on social media. According to the website, critics have been calling for “free Britney” ever since she was placed under the conservatorship in 2008. Britney Spears performing on her World Tour in Boston in 2009.