diff --git a/gthread/gthread-posix.c b/gthread/gthread-posix.c
index 9188f84..d96c000 100644
--- a/gthread/gthread-posix.c
+++ b/gthread/gthread-posix.c
@@ -327,13 +327,6 @@ g_thread_create_posix_impl (GThreadFunc thread_func,
     }
 #endif /* HAVE_PTHREAD_ATTR_SETSTACKSIZE */
 
-#ifdef PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM
-  if (bound)
-    /* No error check here, because some systems can't do it and we
-     * simply don't want threads to fail because of that. */
-    pthread_attr_setscope (&attr, PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM);
-#endif /* PTHREAD_SCOPE_SYSTEM */
-
 #ifdef G_THREADS_IMPL_POSIX
   posix_check_cmd (pthread_attr_setdetachstate (&attr,
           joinable ? PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE : PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED));