diff --git a/requirements-tests.txt b/requirements-tests.txt
index 34393ba79..a7af02511 100644
--- a/requirements-tests.txt
+++ b/requirements-tests.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ pytype==2022.4.26; platform_system != "Windows"
 black==22.3.0
 flake8==4.0.1
 flake8-bugbear==21.11.29
-flake8-pyi==22.4.1
+flake8-pyi==22.5.0
 # must match .pre-commit-config.yaml
 isort==5.10.1
 tomli==1.2.2
diff --git a/tests/check_new_syntax.py b/tests/check_new_syntax.py
index 6ccff7c10..427db4ebd 100755
--- a/tests/check_new_syntax.py
+++ b/tests/check_new_syntax.py
@@ -71,26 +71,6 @@ def check_new_syntax(tree: ast.AST, path: Path, stub: str) -> list[str]:
                 NonAnnotationUnionFinder().visit(base)
             self.generic_visit(node)
 
-    class ObjectClassdefFinder(ast.NodeVisitor):
-        def visit_ClassDef(self, node: ast.ClassDef) -> None:
-            if any(isinstance(base, ast.Name) and base.id == "object" for base in node.bases):
-                errors.append(
-                    f"{path}:{node.lineno}: Do not inherit from `object` explicitly, "
-                    f"as all classes implicitly inherit from `object` in Python 3"
-                )
-            self.generic_visit(node)
-
-    class TextFinder(ast.NodeVisitor):
-        def visit_ImportFrom(self, node: ast.ImportFrom) -> None:
-            if node.module == "typing" and any(thing.name == "Text" for thing in node.names):
-                errors.append(f"{path}:{node.lineno}: Use `str` instead of `typing.Text` in a Python-3-only stub.")
-            self.generic_visit(node)
-
-        def visit_Attribute(self, node: ast.Attribute) -> None:
-            if isinstance(node.value, ast.Name) and node.value.id == "typing" and node.attr == "Text":
-                errors.append(f"{path}:{node.lineno}: Use `str` instead of `typing.Text` in a Python-3-only stub.")
-            self.generic_visit(node)
-
     class IfFinder(ast.NodeVisitor):
         def visit_If(self, node: ast.If) -> None:
             if (
@@ -106,10 +86,6 @@ def check_new_syntax(tree: ast.AST, path: Path, stub: str) -> list[str]:
                 )
             self.generic_visit(node)
 
-    ObjectClassdefFinder().visit(tree)
-    if path != Path("stdlib/typing_extensions.pyi"):
-        TextFinder().visit(tree)
-
     OldSyntaxFinder().visit(tree)
     IfFinder().visit(tree)
     return errors