It seems you're simultaneously arguing that a trust network is both an echo chamber AND a universal scoring system (ala Chinese social scoring). Those two terms describe radically different approaches to rating information, so it's beyond me how you can accuse a trust network like I'm describing of being both simultaneously. Anyways, I've addressed both of these characterizations in earlier comments, so I'll just refer you to my responses elsewhere.
RE: Modeling information in an information rating system