diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index 44e77dbe46..35bc3c8c8f 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 # NOTE: These are mainly just for the BazelCI setup so they don't have
 # to be repeated multiple times in .bazelci/presubmit.yml.
 
-# https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/16729
-build --experimental_strict_conflict_checks
-
 # https://github.com/bazelbuild/stardoc/issues/112
 common --incompatible_allow_tags_propagation