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diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
index d666f22674..2d995ec456 100644
--- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py
+++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     "Jinja2>=2.9",
     "bleach>=1.4.3",
     "typing-extensions>=3.7.4",
-    # setuptools is required by a variety of dependencies, unfortunately version
-    # 50.0 is incompatible with older Python versions, see
-    # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2352
-    "setuptools!=50.0",
 ]
 
 CONDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS = {